Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir · 2019
Lesbian necromancers in space. Sword fights in a haunted palace. Muir's 2019 debut mashes together genres with anarchic energy, voice like a sharpened bone, and a central relationship that earns its emotional payoff through misdirection.
The case against
Muir opens with a dramatis personae you will actually need: house after house of necromancers and cavaliers with overlapping titles, introduced fast and killed faster. Internet snark punctures the gothic atmosphere every few pages; the voice either delights or files your teeth. The middle is locked-room wandering and bone puzzles until the last hundred pages detonate.
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