Gideon the Ninth (Locked Tomb, Band 1)

one flesh. one end, bitch💀

Wow… ich habe lange nicht mehr ein so wunderschönes, tiefgründiges und absolut lustiges Buch gelesen. Ich kann nicht viel mehr dazu sagen, außer dass jeder dieses Buch lesen sollte🥰

while it took me over 6 months to finish this, it also confused the fucking shit out of me. i can't even tell why i really enjoyed this book anyway?

A vibe like no other. And an MC like no other. Nothing about this is ordinary and I dig it. We do bones!

"While we were developing common sense, she studied the blade." I don't even really know what to say about this book, except that I love it a lot. The world-building took me a little to understand, but the plot drew me in immediately, keeping me invested throughout the book. The long list of characters on the first pages of the book made me afraid that I wasn't going to be able to keep up with all the names and characters, but they got important gradually, in small manageable groups that it was easy to keep track of for the most part. The relationship of the two main characters, Gideon and Harrow, was my favourite part of the book. It was so much fun to discover and unravel their past and motivations and how they'd move forward with it. The ending shook me to my core, making me feel a lot of complicated feelings, but mostly it just makes me want to jump directly into [b:Harrow the Ninth|39325105|Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)|Tamsyn Muir|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1602323622l/39325105._SY75_.jpg|60943273]

Character clusterfuck and an unbaked idea badly executed.

With all the first and last names, job titles and house attachments we easily reach about 30 names to keep track of in the first 50 pages. Absolutely insane and the character development is obviously lacking because of it. While Gideon and Harrow receive some depth with a single thing in their past, all other characters and the constant tornado of names leave them just as empty hulls of responsibilities for their houses. Some are good at this, some are good at that. Honestly just terrible writing. The entire world is so lacking that i have no clue what the overall plan is. The necromancer theme is nice and rarely ever used, but thats another reason why that needs special care. Especially when special abilities take up a large portion of the story. All in all this feels like a throw away novel that could be way shorter and introduces a single issue for the second book to take care of. Overrated.

Ein verrücktes, dunkles und sehr witziges Buch. Ich war gefesselt beim lesen... Man muss damit klar kommen, dass man ohne viel Erklärung gleich in die Story geschmissen wird. Mich hat das aber nicht gestört, ich fand es spannend, alles nach und nach besser zu verstehen. Das Necromancer -System hat mir in der Umsetzung richtig gut gefallen. Aber mein Liebster Aspekt am Buch ist Gideon. Ich liebe ihre schroffe Art und und den übertriebenen Gebrauch an Schimpfwörtern :-D

Edit: Ok, on second thought it is unfair to just brag about the fact, that I didn't liked the book. Who am I to judge? Maybe my expectations were to high, maybe I've read to much of this genre and got tired and felt underwhelmed. The pace was just too slow and then it went too fast, and everytime someone entered the scene, I had to look her/him up who he/her was again, in which house, which postion, why is he there? Who is she talking to? What are they talking about? Who comes up with names like shononomgonomous?... there were too many characters and nearly all of them were flat. But this is just my opinion, no big deal, the success of this book speaks for itself it is a new york times bestseller and has a huge fanbase. Well, so does twilight and the fifty shades series, too. BUT: and here comes now the reason why I had to rewrite my review: Gideon is a female Protagonist who JUST. KICKS. ASS. from first page on! She is not a weak and unsecure female maincharacter who is not sure if she wants to date sexy werewolfboy or sparkling vampy mcvamp face. Gideon also doesn´t struggles with herself and needs male help in every Situation and decision. Nope. Not Gideon. Gideon kicks ass. And this is the direction YA books should lead to. I want my niece, when she is old enough to read this type of books, to grab one of plenty books, in which the female main char just kicks ass and is her own Boss. And it shouldn't even care, because we got used to it. And the fact that Gideon is queer is well handled in the book. It just doesn't appear! It's no big deal! She likes girls, fine, get over it! And this is the way it should be. Sure, on the cover they titled a "lesbian Necromancer space..." but this is just to catch more buyers, not Muirs fault/decision. Just Imagine for a Moment having a sticker on the hobbit: "a straight hobbit goes on an adventure!" or "straight harry discovers he is a wizard!" on HP. Ridiculous, right? Exactly. And this should be the same feeling someone should get holding this book in hers/his hands in 2030. This is why we have to applaud and appreciate Tamsyn Muirs work here for this "giant leap" in the right direction.

I had the book on my wish list for a long time and was curious but also somehow skeptical - I had already looked into it a few times in the bookstore. Maybe I should learn to listen to my intuition when it comes to language. I can't say very much about the story - whether it's good or not, I don't know. But what I didn't get on with at all was the language. I don't like the way the characters express themselves, or the way they interact with each other. Something about it turns me off so much that I find them all really unlikable and shitty and just can't continue reading ... I'm just rolling my eyes and finding everything so silly, childish, over the top and .... lowbrow. I'll put the book aside for now; maybe there will come a time when I'll think differently about it.

THIS WAS SO GOOD

Absolutely amazing. Just some lesbian necromancers exploring a cryptic castle in space with some mystery, some of the epic, and much sarcasm uwu