penwing reads (they/them) commented on Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #1)
THE MOST FUN YOU'LL EVER HAVE WITH A SKELETON
THE EMPEROR NEEDS NECROMANCERS
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Well, in good news the rest of the book is not going to suffer so much in comparison to it's opening chapters...
In bad news - the suck fairy has visited those opening chapters very early on...