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reviewed Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb Trilogy)

Tamsyn Muir: Harrow the Ninth (Hardcover, 2020, Tor.com) 4 stars

"She answered the Emperor's call.

She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only …

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3 stars

This book did not make a single lick of sense. It's 500+ pages of various employs of "wtf?!". I don't understand anything that happened. I didn't care about Harrow. I cared a little bit about John. Literally no one is likeable. By the time things start to "make sense" you're 2/3 through and so freaking confused that the ending feels rushed and answers literally no questions. The whole book ends on a series of giant question marks in an utterly unsatisfying way.

That said, I still had fun. The prose is good and hilarious. The plot and world are just so needlessly complex that it pretty much ruins the experience.

I'll be back for the third simply to find out what the hell actually happened in this book, but I don't have high expectations.