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A Much-Wanted Dialectic

The Unwanted Guest by Tamsyn Muir

September 8, 2024 by LittlePlat 2 Comments

Hah, Ok I thought maybe doing this short story was a little bit cheeky.  But then I saw that fellow Cannonballer Monty had beaten me to the punch! All the permission I needed. In physical sense, The Unwanted Guest was initially a little tricky for me to track down and read because I have so far only seen it in the paperback copies of Nona the Ninth. I wasn’t going to buy a paperback version, as I have already purchased two copies of the book […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr16bingo, games, IN SPAACE, Just what is Genre anyway, Locked Tomb series, necromancers, nona the ninth, tamsyn muir, The Locked Tomb Trilogy

LittlePlat's CBR16 Review No:12 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: #fantasy, cbr16bingo, games, IN SPAACE, Just what is Genre anyway, Locked Tomb series, necromancers, nona the ninth, tamsyn muir, The Locked Tomb Trilogy ·
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Still Piecing Together the Puzzle

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

July 15, 2024 by Tracy Leave a Comment

After reading this, I don’t know how I’m going to be able to wait for the last book to come out. Although I think Harrow the Ninth was the best out of the three Locked Tomb books, Nona the Ninth was still so good, and I want to know how everything is going to unfold in the end. Nona has a very different tone than the first two books, primarily because it’s following Nona, who could not be more different from both Gideon and Harrowhark. Although in […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Science Fiction Tagged With: cbr16bingo, Locked Tomb series, science fantasy, tamsyn muir

Tracy's CBR16 Review No:41 · Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction · Tags: cbr16bingo, Locked Tomb series, science fantasy, tamsyn muir ·
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SO Glad I Continued the Series – This Was Perfect

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

June 28, 2024 by Tracy Leave a Comment

Oh my goodness, I don’t even know where to start. After Gideon the Ninth, I thought I would eventually give this sequel a try, but I wasn’t super interested. Except then I kept thinking about it and decided not to wait, and that was the best decision ever. This book is just so good. All I want to do is gush. Harrow is now a Lyctor but a “broken” one with no memories of Gideon. She and Ianthe are training with the other remaining OG […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Science Fiction Tagged With: Locked Tomb series, science fantasy, tamsyn muir

Tracy's CBR16 Review No:36 · Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction · Tags: Locked Tomb series, science fantasy, tamsyn muir ·
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Not What I Was Hoping For, but I’m (Probably) Not Giving Up

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

June 18, 2024 by Tracy 2 Comments

I don’t think I’ve read a science fantasy book before, so this was a cool first for me. It also had more horror elements than I typically read, and I found the darkness didn’t bother me (mostly). I liked it, but I didn’t love it. I’ve realized that I tend to have trouble explaining my feelings on 3-star reads and the mix of things that worked and didn’t work for me, but let’s give it a go. Gideon Nav is an orphan living in the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Science Fiction Tagged With: Locked Tomb series, science fantasy, tamsyn muir

Tracy's CBR16 Review No:34 · Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction · Tags: Locked Tomb series, science fantasy, tamsyn muir ·
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Review #12: I miss the “lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!”

The Unwanted Guest by Tamsyn Muir

December 31, 2023 by Monty Leave a Comment

I have some concerns! Publisher’s short description: “Featuring Ianthe Tridentarius and Palamedes Sextus, this story was originally published in the trade paperback edition of Nona the Ninth.“ The Unwanted Guest by Tamsyn Muir is short story (#3.5), built around being a play, meant to flesh out two main characters in the Locked Tomb series. I guess it’s time for a small rant, but I’m becoming more and more suspicious that the upcoming fourth book, Alecto the Ninth (#4), while be nigh indecipherable. I was already […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: #fantasy, Locked Tomb series, nona the ninth, short story, tamsyn muir

Monty's CBR15 Review No:12 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: #fantasy, Locked Tomb series, nona the ninth, short story, tamsyn muir ·
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WHen zombies may not be just zombies and the body and soul connection is not what anyone seems to think

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

August 6, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 9: Strange Worlds Nona the Ninth takes place in an apocalyptic city but there are references to space travel and planets and other not-Earth realms (namely The River, but that might be a little spoiler-y); this novel definitely fits the strange part of Strange Worlds and by the final third or so starts to really get more into the worlds part. Nona seems to be around 12 or so, but really has maybe only existed for about 6 months, at least that’s as far […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: cbr15bingo, Locked Tomb series, necromancy, nona the ninth, SciFi, Speculative Fiction, tamsyn muir

CoffeeShopReader's CBR15 Review No:64 · Genres: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: cbr15bingo, Locked Tomb series, necromancy, nona the ninth, SciFi, Speculative Fiction, tamsyn muir ·
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