A review by keiwald
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Sloooow start, but picks up to the point where it's a sprint to the finish line.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Classism

Minor: Death of parent

It is a book about necromancy, lots of bones, lots of death, lots of blood.