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Nona, oh Nona! Muir shakes up the POV character yet again. This time, the narrator is full of sunshine and joy-and knows almost nothing about what's going on with the main plot (so tasty from a writing craft perspective). Meanwhile I'm scouring the background details trying to figure out what happened! Fascinating worldbuilding and it comes together in the end. I finished and wanted to reread the series almost immediately.

I loved this 3rd book in The Locked Tomb series, though I'm not sure I understood everything that happened (as in, who's alive, who's dead, and who's in whose body). This novel and the series got 2023 Hugo Award nominations.

BTW, the first half of the book felt like Anne of Green Gables with necromancers. Nona even has braids on the cover!

#hugoawards #hugo2023
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Tamsyn Muir is definitely a great writer. I love the world she has created with this series. Though, like almost every review I've read on this series, I still have no idea what is going on. Will I read the next one? Yes. So the author must be doing something right. #Serieslove2023

I‘m enjoying this series so much more, Marco Polo book clubbing it with a friend 😎

Forgot to share a picture of my new bumper sticker! 🖤 Sixth House represent!

#BookAdjacent

I love Nona

Nona wants to celebrate her 6 month birthday with her family, her gang, & every dog she‘s ever met. So if necromancers, a suspicious convoy, & a terrorism group fighting against God could stop, that‘d be great.

I loved this as much as I thought I would, but it really felt like it was stretched into a novel. Lots of world building, amazing characters, Noodles, questions answered, but also a cliff hanger that‘s making me gnash my teeth. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

I should probably have reread Gideon and Harrow before starting Nona. 😅

Happy Pride Month! ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💜🩷 I'm going to hopefully be reading a lot of great LGBTQ+ books this month! Here are a few of my all time favorites!

I have a lot of feelings about Pride Month this year. The world is a particularly scary place right now for queer people. But Pride originally began as a protest, so let's try and be as strong and joyful as we can! 🌈 #pridemonth #queerbooks

I flat out loved Nona. And if Nona knew me, she‘d love me back. Also, Pyrrha and Camilla/Palamedes were wonderful. I know some readers thought this diversion from the main plot of the wider locked tomb narrative was unnecessary, but I loved every word of it. I‘m so excited now about the last book in this series , expected near the end of this year.

#Booked2023 Set in Two Time Periods
#SeriesLove2023
#Popsugar2023 #Pop23 Main Char. Name in Title

I was so frustrated after reading Harrow that I surprised myself by continuing this series. It‘s definitely a big improvement over Harrow even if I only understand the series a little bit more. These books are nothing if not extremely confusing for non necromancers or people very familiar with that topic. There‘s something about the way she writes that is compelling and very readable. I just hope the author stays off her medication and finishes.

I liked Nona: her childlikeness was lovable, but I was a bit disappointed how amnesia was used again in this series.

I loved post-apocalyptic world in this book.

Writing is sometimes fun and clever but those sentences are buried deep between unnecessary babbling to really shine out.

You could see some plot at least now and then. But this also felt a filler because there were mundane scenes that didn't get the story move forward.

#SeriesLove23

Next row of my #readinglogsnake is for Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. Since this is science fantasy, I chose a purple blue blend yarn. I ❤️ this series, but the first 11 chapters in this was a slog to get through. I actually had to put this book aside for a month because I found them so boring. Chapter 12 returned the book back to the pace I expected in this series, and I enjoyed the remainder of the book. 4/5 ⭐️ #ARRCReads #BooksAndCrafts

“If you think in black and white your brain can‘t be agile.”

I am more than a little confused by this book. And a little sad. But 4🌟

I love Nona. And Nona loves everybody. This book is so funny at times. Although nothing is as good as Gideon. I don't even care that I have no idea what's going on half of the time.

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Same week as GTN. Throughout my least favourite of the bunch, but at the end it turned out I loved it.

I loved this. Was hugely confused for a while as I struggled to decide which characters I remembered from Book 2 and which I didn‘t …. But Nona is freaking fabulous, I loved seeing the world through her childlike eyes, trying to figure out what her role in the wider story would be. I think Tamsyn Muir likes to smash each house of cards she builds in this series and play with the pieces. It‘s a lot of fun if you‘re willing to go for the ride 😍

There you go thinking you're reading a trilogy and suddenly a wild Nona appears! What a delight! What a lovely, lovely creature. I just wanted to hug her during the whole book.

Of course Muir deepens her universe and moves forward in her story. There are some new things to learn and sh... is going down once again. Especially the first part of the book when we went to school with Nona was great to read.

My fox mittens still need one thumb and some blocking, but they‘re mostly done! Here‘re the palms instead of a repeat of the fox face backs.

Finishing the bulk of mitten #2 got me 44% into NONA THE NINTH. It seems fashionable to find it overlong and insiderish, but I‘m loving it. Maybe that means I‘m a Locked Tomb insider? More likely, it means I love puzzle books with great characters and cool worldbuilding and unabashed New Zealandness.

What the heck did I just read?!

Book 4, ASAP, please.

I may end up buying all four books just so I can read them all at once when Alecto comes out and maybe make more sense of them. Which may be Tamsyn Muir‘s evil master plan… 🤔

My (expanded) wish list for the #JolabokaflodSwap so my match has more to choose from (if they want)! Thank you!! So excited to enjoy a book & chocolate on 12/24. 😊

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
White Feminism by Koa Beck
Lore Olympus Volume 2 by Rachel Smythe
Chosen by Kiersten White
In Every Generation by Kendare Blake
The Menopause Manifesto by Jen Gunter

Bonus sleepy Persephone pic! 😺

I have NO idea what‘s going on in this book, but I sure am along for the ride!

Sending out a bunch of Gideon bookmarks 💀
#gideonnav #gideontheninth #harrowtheninth #nonatheninth #lockedtomb

I have enjoyed the Locked Tomb series, but this one was a bit of a struggle for me. I really felt like I was missing a lot (there's always a sense of that in these books) and the tone of this book is much different. Still, Muir's writing and character- and world-building are brilliant. If anything, I feel like I just need to reread the whole series before the next book comes out.

Don't pick this up and expect it to be as exciting as the previous novels. But I also urge you to not give up on the series. This is the lull before the storm. Readers have seen the complex and thrilling abilities of Tamsyn Muir. As we venture into the final book I have a feeling all the cards will be laid out on the table and it will be a book to remember.

Review https://www.behindthepages.org/post/nona-the-ninth-by-tamsyn-muir-book-review

October 2022 was a pretty amazing reading month! I actually took an entire week off at the beginning of the month as a belated summer break and read 6 of the above books during that week. It was glorious.

Two of my most anticipated 2022 books, Nona the Ninth and Just Like Home, were every bit as amazing as I hoped. I finally got around to Convenience Store Woman, The Midnight Library, and Ten Thousand Doors of January, all of which rocked!

Oh my GOODNESS. Now THIS is a book to pull you out of a reading slump. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and am now busy speculating as to what will haopen in the sequel Alecto. Cannot say much more without spoiling things, but I loved seeing the sweeter sides of everyone in this installment. Really hope shit goes down in the final.

Nona the Ninth was my favorite book of October and wins against A Scandalous Kind of Duke. #2022ReadingBracket

Nona is a breath of fresh air in a crapsack world. A quirky child with amnesia, naive, simple-minded and full of love, she tries to make the best of her daily life in postapocalyptic dystopia. The story is told from Nona's perspective, so it's way confusing, we have to assemble it like a puzzle, with details and references to previous books. That's hard work, with all the politics and military stuff. I googled for the explanations right away;) 4/5

Bookish Song Nr 42: Sleepwalking

Wow, this song just smashed me directly back into Nonas arms. The whole atmosphere, as well as the text just reminded me so much of this book. All the scenes and dialogues kept playing in my head and it was as if Nona stood right next to me.

That was intense.

Tamsyn Muir wrote a book about me 🤣 I need a Coke Zero now 🤭😁

We meet the cast of The Locked Tomb once more—all of them messy and confusing as hell, yet strangely lovable. This time we‘re seeing the events through the eyes of Nona, a born-yesterday woman-child, who understands what‘s going on even less than we do, and it‘s funny, and sad, and terrible, and glorious.

Man, do I love this series.

5.0/5

#SF #Fantasy #ScienceFantasy #LGBTQ #LGBTQFantasy #LGBTQSF #FantasySeries #EpicReads

The best #bookmail ! #illumicrate

I FINALLY FINISHED NONA
And I love her and this book so much 😭
The Locked Tomb series continues to sit at the top of my favorites list ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

2.5/5⭐ Hard to like a book when you spend 75% of it frustrated with confusion. #bookspin

At some point you stop wanting people to listen, you want people to do.

Went apple picking today! 💕🍏🍎 The weather is absolutely gorgeous!

Pumpkin pretzels and Nona! ❤️🥨📚 Pretty much the best Friday night ever!

I like Muir‘s characters so much that I forget, between books, that the politics and rules of her universe and magic system slide right out of my smooth brain. The important thing about this novel is Nona got to pet the dog. Kevin swore the best oath. And Harrowhark was grumpy at many, many people.

My Nona promo pin arrived today! It's PERFECT! 🖤💀🖤

I'm about halfway through the book so far, and though I don't know what in the world is going on... I'm enjoying myself immensely! 😁

Tamsyn Muir continually surprises me, and I'm not even sure why at this stage. It was a ballsy choice to follow-up an amnesiac story with another amnesia/unknown-self/lost-soul story, but she pulled it off. Overall it was really good, and will likely warrant a re-read fairly soon just to cross reference all the biblical references that appear throughout.

Cam and Pal, Cam and Pal, these are most of my feelings

This weekend is The Harvest Moon Festival in my town! Basically everyone comes to the town square and there is live music, lots of local food, and craft beer! With the lights, fires, and fall decorations, it is my FAVORITE town event of the year! 🎃🍁🍂 I brought Nona with me, and reading this fever dream of a book while sitting on a haystack was definitely an odd experience! 😄💕📚

Finished! Loved it! This is definitely a series that will benefit from a reread -- I look forward to doing that in the run-up to Alecto

At work, wishing I was home reading.

#FridayReads

I have been so tired the last couple of nights and this hardcover is in the size class where I don't want to read it while laying down. My reading life, it is hard :(

I've been anxiously waiting for this book and it's here!! I'm starting it tonight.😍

I read this. I enjoyed the book. But please don't ask me what it was about in detail.