Nona the Ninth

, #3

Hardcover, 496 pages

Published Sept. 12, 2022

ISBN:
978-1-250-85411-7
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Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party. In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona's not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back. The whole city is falling to pieces. A monstrous blue sphere hangs on the horizon, ready to tear the planet apart. Blood of Eden forces have surrounded the last Cohort facility and wait for the Emperor Undying to come calling. Their leaders want Nona to be the weapon that will save them from the Nine Houses. Nona would prefer to live an ordinary life with the people she loves, with Pyrrha and Camilla and Palamedes, but …

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reviewed Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #3)

Review of 'Nona the Ninth' on 'Goodreads'

Ja, mycket mer sammanhållen än förra boken. Finns faktiskt en röd råd. Ganska intressanta funderingar, mystik. Intressanta karaktärer. En stark trea. Muir inte någon favvisförfattare, men det är möjligt att jag läser uppföljaren när den kommer nästa år. Om jag orkar. Hajpen däremot tycker jag är närmast absurd, visst är det välskrivet, men det finns många andra bättre val inom fantasy/sci-fi/rymdopera.

reviewed Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #3)

Nona the Ninth

It shouldn't be possible, after reading Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth, to finish another Locked Tomb novel and yet again be like "What the hell did I just read?!" However.

Nona the Ninth is yet another wonderful, unexpected, weird masterpiece from Tamsyn Muir.

reviewed Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #3)

just plain fun

Did this feel like a bit of a filler at times? Yes. Is having an extra book that accomplishes less than the previous two, in terms of resolving existing plotlines, immensely preferable to having a rushed final volume in a series, especially if said book is full of delightful character moments? Also yes.

In the words of wise tumblr user gideonisms: "tlt was written for the girls who get obsessed with random side characters and for everyone who did the lord’s work in the early 2010s: shipping two women who have spoken twice in canon."

reviewed Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #3)

Review of 'Nona the Ninth' on 'Goodreads'

The first 160 pages could have been way shorter. Although I like the story, it bothers me a lot that it feels like "Lost", where there is a lot of confusion for the sake of confusion IMO. That doesn't make it an interesting book, but kind of bothering. I like Nona as a character though, probably the most likely character in the whole series.

reviewed Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #3)

Too confusing

Very confusing. That nothing from the previous books was explained made it even more confusing; i forgot much of the details that were apparently required to know. I mean, i like it when a book in a series doesn't explain every little detail, but a short sentence here and there to jog the memory would have been nice.

It was still pretty good, after a slow start, but i don't like the style. Too confusing.

reviewed Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #3)

None

Tamsyn Muir has a really incredible ability to make every book in this series completely unlike every prior book in plot and structure, while still making them cohere completely as a unit. This is no Lord of the Rings situation—these absolutely aren't volumes of a single work released as separate novels for logistical reasons. But at the same time, it's nothing like an anthological series either: everything before flows necessarily into everything after. It's hard to think of any series in any medium that strikes such a balance so confidently and successfully.

reviewed Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #3)

Review of 'Nona the Ninth' on 'Goodreads'

Nona impressions seem to be inevitably colored by the fact that the novel originated from what was planned to be Alecto's first act, so I can understand people calling it a "setup book" or just a way to move the 5-dimensional chess pieces to where Muir needs them to be so Alecto can begin, but I feel that's unfair. This is a great novel that makes Nona a fully realized character, provides a sense of place and setting unlike any other in the series, manages to juggle between a good number of factions and also trumps both Gideon and Harrow in the emotional department, thanks to (particularly) Nona's found family unit and the kids she befriends.

I honestly came away from it with less questions than I expected, and all the ones I can think of feel more like intentional blanks than stuff I'd find answers for in a reread, …

reviewed Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #3)

Review of 'Nona the Ninth' on 'Goodreads'

This was nothing like what I expected (mostly because I was expecting Alecto, not this 500 page fever-dream/warmup), but I loved it from start to finish. As with Harrow, you spend a considerable amount of time just trying to figure out where (and sometimes who) people are and what exactly is going on, and much like Gideon this is a slow burn to get to the really exciting stuff. But where Harrow directly contradicts earlier information, this is more like it's another story featuring people with familiar names. Not only that, but the unreliable narration makes everything seem like it could be Harrow all over again, with brain-mess-ups (and there's a lot of hinting that this is what is happening, but now Harrow's mind is split into 3 pieces). Only later do we find out who the other personalities in Harrow's head are, and even then there is (maybe?) some …

reviewed Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #3)

Who is Nona? The Locked Tomb series continues...

I blazed through this book after re-reading Gideon and Harrow (and I'm glad I did- there were details there that were great to have been reminded of). Overall this was a great story; Nona is an interesting mystery and trying to figure her out is part of the fun of this book. It does start off a bit slow, but towards the end it is rushing and almost too much is going on to fully follow it all. This is one I will have to re-read when the next (yes there is a fourth) book comes out.

For a full review, check out my blog: strakul.blogspot.com/2022/09/book-review-nona-ninth-by-tamsyn-muir.html

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