The Locked Tomb Trilogy

[lunabee34]

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


This is splendid and glorious, and I loved every single second of it.

I can't really talk about how much I adore this book without spoilers, so I will say only that I am very happy with where the story goes in this second book and really looking forward to what might happen in the third.



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I love this book so much. I knew Gideon wasn't dead! Hurrah!

I also really, really love getting to see all the characters from the first book again. Abigail Pent is a marvel.

I'm not quite sure I understand exactly what's going on. I think I understand what's made up and what's not, but I'm unsure about the Harrow is insane part. I get that most of that stems from her tinkering with her brain to erase Gideon. But I'm unclear. Is the whole Harrow hallucinates and hears things and whatever a thing that actually happens back to her childhood or a manifestation of her brain surgery? And what about The Body? Has Harrow been seeing her all along, or does The Body just manifest after she does the brain surgery?

I guess The Body is Alecto. I'm not sure what to think about her since Augustine and Mercy think she's evil.

I'm also guessing that what is going to happen is that Harrow has somehow woken up in a new body and that Gideon will get to keep hers. Or wait. The first book said that Gideon's body was missing, so maybe it's been preserved and everyone will get back into their right suits eventually.

I hate that Mercy and Augustine die. :(

Totally not surprised that God is a bad guy.

Really, really looking forward to the conclusion.

Comments

[lunabee34]

What's MI? *blanking*

I said upthread to kore that I think all the stuff about Ortus confirming stuff for her, etc., is part of the brain surgery ruse, but I think she has been seeing the body since she opened the tomb.

Oh goodness. I want Gideon and Harrow to be in their own bodies by the end of this, I think. LOL Although if Gideon ends up in Alecto's body that would kind of be Harrow's best day ever, yes?

Okay, even I got that meme. That was honestly the only time I noticed a meme along with the one that's Wake's name (but I didn't get that one, so *shrugs*).

[kore]

I want Gideon and Harrow to be in their own bodies by the end of this, I think. LOL Although if Gideon ends up in Alecto's body that would kind of be Harrow's best day ever, yes?

I kind of want them to be eternally swapped, LOL -- Gideon was so annoyed at being so short and with arms that weren't buff! Gideon-in-Alecto would be wild. I thiiink Alecto is the one reviving her at the very end? (In Harrow's body)

[lunabee34]

I don't know. The end is so ambiguous to me; I'd believe just about any answer for who's who in that ending vignette (well, except Camilla, since she gets named LOL).

I cannot wait to see how this ends.

[gloss]

MI=mental illness

Although if Gideon ends up in Alecto's body that would kind of be Harrow's best day ever, yes?
hehehehehe omg. It would make Gideon SO ANGSTY, too! "Does she like me or my body??"

[lunabee34]

Ah, yes. *headdesk* Of course. :)

INORITE? It would make her so mad that it would be unknowable.

[gloss]

Wake's name fascinates me! Especially because it was slightly changed between review copies and actual publication, according to this comment.

[lunabee34]

Oh that's very interesting!