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Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

47 reviews

monicalaurette's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

 “…and hey, what’s like except a love that hasn’t been invited indoors?” 

This whole series makes my brain hurt, but in a good way. Even though I picked this up RIGHT after I read Harrow...the fact that it follows basically a whole new story in a world that still has very little world building (at least to me) gives me major whiplash.

I still feel like I'm unsure who Nona was, or if we she was someone else at all. Also is that Gideon or is Kiriona a totally new person now that she knows her origins?

However I liked the intrigue of the book and trying to follow along, while some would be annoyed with it, I liked because it kept me on my toes and having to actually focus on everything being done and said. Which is why I laughed at this quote:  I don't understand yet, that's all. Not even a little. I have so much to learn in the ways of not understanding." 

This was not my favorite book in the series, but I liked it more than Harrow - we'll see how I like Alecto once it comes out (and if I should possibly re-read any of the series before then)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Toxic friendship

hannahpings's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Medical content and War

cuteasamuntin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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, Violence, Grief, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Eating disorder, Genocide, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, and War

Minor: Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Drug use, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Murder, and Dysphoria

coffeeandcomedy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective tense medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

I love Nona, and Nona would probably love me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Mental illness, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Medical trauma

baileythebeagle04's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful tense

5.0

Everything about this book is exactly what I needed at the moment (even Kevin)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Eating disorder, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Police brutality, Religious bigotry, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Medical content

julesadventurezone's review

challenging emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.25

It starts off slow like all books in the locked tomb series, and the tone is different. No more campy drama and funny dialogue, this feels real and deeply wretched and often sad. 
I love Nona's little family very much and cried about them several times toward the end of this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Drug use, Eating disorder, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, and Colonisation

Minor: Sexual violence and Police brutality

ebp's review

dark funny 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, and Car accident

savvy999's review against another edition

challenging funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

Another welcome addition to the locked tomb, with a distinctly different voice, Nona’s tone is lithe and playful with the darkness creeping in around the edges. The political and wartime strategy is well crafted in with the naivety of our narrator. Definitely going to be pining for the next book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, and War

steph_weigle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

k_aro's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

I took the longest to finish Nona the Ninth, not really out of Nona's failings or anything, I just couldn't get into the groove of having a whole bunch of narratives at once at the same time as an entire new cast of characters/new world. I also think it's the book that's easiest for me to tackle in The Locked Tomb series, both having a better grasp of the writing style/world as well as being structured a little more accessibly.

Off the bat, Nona's internal narrative is much more loving and caring than Gideon and Harrow, which is to say I spent so much more of GtN and HtN actively being confused and annoyed by the various characters, where in Nona they're a lot more understandable. NtN really does pull out to look at what the TLT-verse looks like outside of the Houses (and to a certain degree that life outside of them are in fact so fruitful and lively, which is something I just couldn't really imagine previously).

Ianthe is worse than ever, which is a compliment because I love how terrible she is. Muir really excels at the most horrifying relationships, experienced through shreds of narrative. I agree that NtN really feels like a prologue, but frankly a prologue to what I could not say; this seems to be a running TLT joke where each book is just more confusing and more disorienting than the last. Truly, I could not imagine what Alecto will do.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Gun violence, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, Dysphoria, and War

Minor: Terminal illness

Terminal Illness:

Well, whether Nona's illness is terminal per se is up for interpretation, I guess.