Гидеон из Девятого дома

, #1

Hardcover, 512 pages

Russian language

Published Dec. 16, 2020 by Эксмо.

ISBN:
978-5-04-111844-0
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Мир «Гидеон из Девятого дома» Тэмсин Мьюир — это вселенная звездолётов, далёких солнц, мастеров фехтования, жестокой политики и лесбиянок-некромантов.

Воспитанная недружелюбными, окостеневшими монахинями, древними слугами и бесчисленными скелетами, Гидеон готова предать традиции и отказаться от рабства и загробной жизни в качестве живого мертвеца. Она зачехляет свой меч и готовится к дерзкому побегу. Но у Немезиды для неё другие планы.

Харрохак Нонагесимус, Преподобная дочь Девятого дома и экстраординарная костяная ведьма, отправляется в бой. Император призвал наследников каждого из верноподданных Домов на смертельный поединок — испытание ума и мастерства. Если Харрохак преуспеет, она станет бессмертной всемогущей слугой Бога Воскрешения. Но ни один некромант не может выступить без своего рыцаря. Без рапиры Гидеон, Харроу потерпит неудачу и Девятый дом вымрет.

Безусловно, некоторые вещи лучше оставить мёртвыми.

8 editions

reviewed Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #1)

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I've lived my whole wretched life at your mercy, yours alone, and God knows I deserve to die at your hand. You are my only friend. I am undone without you.


For me, there's always a certain pressure in reading a super hyped book you've been hearing so much about for months and you know half your friends are in love with. Because—what if I don't like it? There's no real harm in not liking a book everyone else loves, of course. Tastes differ! Except it's a little like standing on the edge of a party, watching everyone having fun without you, wondering why you came.

So, yeah. I was a bit apprehensive when I began reading Gideon the Ninth. Even more so when the first chapter failed to catch my interest. It was just... stuff happening. Fun stuff, mostly, but it didn't really grab me or gave me …

reviewed Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #1)

Review of 'Gideon the Ninth' on 'Goodreads'

No no hear me out—

What if sword lesbians.

AND goth gf.

And, and, we set it in Warhammer 40k, right?, but take all that gross hypermasculinity out of it. And, also, they’re all in necromancy school chūnin exam! But there’s a murderer! Maybe it’s the monster? I mean the one haunting the castle. Where the tournament arc happens. It’s in a haunted castle. For necromancers. In space. With murders.

This book is an amusement park ride going right through a big black pool filled with sheer unabashed glee. And skeletons. A lot of skeletons. I love it so much. Both the fencing ~and~ the necromancy are exquisitely, lovingly detailed, and they aren’t even the best part because the characters are so great, the plot so hooking. Nine skulls out of five.

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Audiobook is great, Moira is a fantastic voice actor, but some stuff doesn’t work well in linear …

reviewed Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #1)

Review of 'Gideon the Ninth' on Goodreads

Sword-swinging and skeletal magic, nearly all-women, led by a sarcastic saucy misfit (voice as enjoyable as Murderbot, perhaps too close) in a dying galactic empire. Enjoyed the puzzling and locked-room wizarding with these welcome setting twists, but ultimately I may not be the swashbuckling audience.

reviewed Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #1)

Review of 'Gideon the Ninth' on 'Goodreads'

I remember hearing about this book last year, but the tagline it was advertised with, "lesbian necromancers in space", didn't sound particularly appealing. Now, with the second book of the Locked Tomb trilogy just out, there was more talk about Gideon the Ninth, and these reviews sounded a lot better. After the borefest that was Gorky Park, I wanted something entertaining and picked up Gideon. And how glad I am I did. It's very good for a first novel, full of an interesting world and twists and turns. I can see why some people wouldn't like it, but I didn't see any faults in this book. My only problem was the vocabulary, which is oftentimes a bit too much if your native language isn't English. But it was still OK and I can't wait where the next books take the story.

reviewed Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #1)

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I remember hearing about this book last year, but the tagline it was advertised with, "lesbian necromancers in space", didn't sound particularly appealing. Now, with the second book of the Locked Tomb trilogy just out, there was more talk about Gideon the Ninth, and these reviews sounded a lot better. After the borefest that was Gorky Park, I wanted something entertaining and picked up Gideon. And how glad I am I did. It's very good for a first novel, full of an interesting world and twists and turns. I can see why some people wouldn't like it, but I didn't see any faults in this book. My only problem was the vocabulary, which is oftentimes a bit too much if your native language isn't English. But it was still OK and I can't wait where the next books take the story.

reviewed Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #1)

Review of 'Gideon the Ninth' on 'Goodreads'

This was super good - loved the setting and the use of necromancy; loved the characters. But it took me a looong while to stop being confused about who's who - the cast is quite large, and a given character will be called at least three different ways, which doesn't help. There was also possibly more twists and turns in the last 20% than in the first 80%, and that was a bit exhausting. Also, I'm starting to realize I actually do not like epic fight scenes endings... and this definitely went into that category.

reviewed Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #1)

Review of 'Gideon the Ninth' on 'Goodreads'

I just don't know what to make of this book! The two main protagonists, Harrowhark and, especially, Gideon, were just great. Gideon was a real wise cracker. She had a snappy comeback for almost everything. Her and Harrowhark fought like two sisters for years but finally came together. Their banter was definitely the high point of the story.

This is a story about magic. Magic in space! The Nine houses all live on different planets and travel around by spaceship. The Ninth House is all about necromancy. They get called together, I think to figure out who will become the next Lyctor. What a Lyctor is, I am not sure. In fact, I am not sure what to make of the entire story.

To begin with, I was never too sure who the other characters were. Each house sent their lead magic user and their best cavalier, a sword bearing …

Review of 'Gideon the Ninth' on 'Goodreads'

This was an incredible book to read and I can see why it's being praised so highly. I though the characters were great and I wanted to learn more about the individual Houses and what made them unique. The plot was very engaging as well and I raced through the last hundred pages or so. I look forward to the next in the series, which I understand is coming out in June of this year, and I highly recommend it for fans of either fantasy or science fiction.

For my full review, check out my blog: strakul.blogspot.com/2020/03/book-review-gideon-ninth-by-tamsyn-muir.html

reviewed Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #1)

Review of 'Gideon the Ninth' on 'Goodreads'

I've been struggling to think of any way to describe this book and the best I can come up with is that it's something like if the snarky heroine of "Murderbot" found herself a swordfighting human Gene Wolfe's "Shadow of the Torturer" trilogy and then got REALLY involved a necromancy murder mystery (with a little bit of unrequited lesbian crushing on the side).

Not sure if that's helpful.

Anyway, in Tamsyn Muir's very original setting, there is an ancient decaying empire supported by nine Houses, each of which has a helpfully numeric surname and is often just referred to formally as their number (e.g. "Ninth"). Each of the nine houses specialize in a particular type of necromancy - and I'm super impressed at the author for even thinking up the details of nine different types of necromancy. The Emperor - who has been fighting some war, the details of which …

Review of 'Gideon the Ninth' on 'Goodreads'

4.5 stars. I'm not quite sure how to review this book, so I'll write down some observations.

I loved Gideon. She has a fuck it, fuck them, and when it comes to Harrowhark, fuck you in particular attitude. Both girls hate each other with the power of a thousand suns, but there's also some camaraderie between the two. I really liked the interaction between the two.

This book has about 400 pages, and while I consider myself quite good at English, there were on average two words per page I had to look up. That means I learned about 800 new words (well, I've forgotten most of them already). There were even one or two words even dictionary.com never heard of. Most of them were just archaic English.

The only thing that bothered me was the worldbuilding. There is space travel, spacestations, and an Cohort that does battle on remote …

reviewed Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #1)

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Lesbian space necromancers explore a haunted mansion while embroiled in galactic politics. How could I not read this?

The book takes a few chapters to find its feet, but once Gideon and Harrow leave their home planet and head to a lovely abandoned manor with representatives from every other noble house in the empire things start to pick up. Gentlemanly duels, necromantic experiments, backroom deals, dangerous exploration, and horrifically gruesome murders all drive a plot and setting riddled with mysteries, all while Gideon the horrifically abused cavalier of the Ninth House stumbles around trying to make sense of what's going on around her. When stuff starts falling into place towards the end, everything catapults into a grotesque and wonderful ending that hits every point just right.

Muir does a pretty good job of developing the sizable cast of characters while keeping you unsure as to what anyone's end goal is. …

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