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Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

157 reviews

bootrat's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Gun violence, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cannibalism

krisalexcole's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Gun violence, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Vomit, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and War

cuteasamuntin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Death of parent

Minor: Gun violence, Infertility, Miscarriage, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, and Medical content

knightreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Mental illness, and Violence

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Chronic illness and Vomit

chrisb913's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book was incredible. First off, the way Muir has woven this narrative is absolute brilliance. The book is incredibly confusing. You start off the book directly contradicting everything you read in Gideon the Ninth and it all serves a purpose. Muir is able to craft a narrative that is so unique and it has just blown me away.

Second the characters are so well written. There is still so much snark and sass and attitude as we meet back up with Harrowhark as well as new characters for this story. Harrow may not have the same vibe as Gideon, but I found myself cackling at the way she interacts with all characters involved.

At the end of the day, this was baffling, confusing, mind blowing, and just such an incredible experience. I cannot wait to continue.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Vomit, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death, Sexual content, and Cannibalism

lunarkris's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Cancer, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Genocide, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Body shaming, Drug use, Incest, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

jennabean855's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

HOLY MOLYYY

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Suicide, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Pregnancy

HOLY MOLYYYY

Ianthe when I get you

kelisabeth's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

ladythana's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical trauma, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Eating disorder, Gun violence, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse

eldane's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Just when I thought the first book was mind-boggling, the second arrived and knocked my teeth out with no warning whatsoever. This is one of those books you have to be patient with as it rips your heart out, even if you don't understand why. Muir does something excellent in writing the most poignant scenes with the most bizarre descriptions and then adding a line of dialogue that is so snappy and crude and brilliant you can't help but laugh. The story is dense and put together like Frankenstein's monster, but you are rewarded with delicious, jaw-dropping answers that will have you frothing at the mouth for the next book (Nona, when I catch you...when I catch you, Nona). I loved how expansive and epic this story was while also being heartbreakingly raw and intimate. Harrow's grief and PTSD is dealt with in a way that is honest and unflinching, and the narrative does not begrudge her for being in mourning. There is something about the way that Muir weaves in all these references and allusions, hauntingly reminiscent of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, that makes me want to scream into a pillow because it's so bloody brilliant. Well done. I am ready to get hurt again.
 

Featuring: 

• Space necromancers
• The most unexpected “Hi, blank. I’m Dad” joke you’ll ever encounter
• Everyone is sad and angry
• “I wish you would die” (affectionate)
• “It was all a dream” except the dream was the complex parallel universe you made in the afterlife to pretend that your trauma didn’t happen
• The all-consuming souls of murdered planet-creatures (???)
• Hell is real and it’s a mouth with too many tongues (literal)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

Minor: Sexual content and Abandonment