Whatever you expected from Tamsyn Muir's followup to her lesbian-necromancers-in-space epic, 'Harrow the Ninth' is not that book — it's something wilder, darker and much, much weirder.
of a book — so strange, so full, so lush, so double-bats*** crazy and so unerringly cool — that I didn't think anything could top it.Gideon was the perfect surrogate through which to experience Muir's creation — a brash, foul-mouthed, anarchic guide who was just as wonderstruck as we were by the gory weirdness happening at every other breath, but never so serious about it that any piece of the story felt logy with funereal detail.
Harrow is all black crepe and rosaries. She's that one goth girl from high school gone full dark supernova with her sacramental face paint and unfathomable necromantic powers.black crepe and rosaries. She's that one goth girl from high school gone full dark supernova with her sacramental face paint and unfathomable necromantic powers. A bone witch , she can construct a skeleton from a chip of tibia and have it tear your arms and legs clean off.
Muir uses a hundred tricks to lay down the tone and temper of Harrow's damage: messed-up timeframes, character swaps, revisionist history, secret letters, talking with ghosts, hallucination both auditory and visual, split narration that switches from a tight third-person narration in the past — during Harrow's version of the events of the first book — to an absolutely claustrophobic second person for her time post-transformation, while ostensibly training to defend God and the universe...
It is wickedly challenging to read, deliberately impossible to comprehend in full and, frankly, I still feel like I only got about 80% of what actually happened. But there's just something so gorgeously Baroque about it all.is long. It is fatty with a thousand adjectives, luxurious with its emotional frosting, rich with blood and meat and spattered in sanguinary body-horror.
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