Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn MuirMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This one might take me a reread or two to properly appreciate all the extensive world-building that Tamsyn Muir puts into this debut novel, and it's such an amazing one that I'm going to love digging deeper into this strange necromantic space mythos. Though deadly dark and full of terrors, the space-opera world of Gideon the Ninth is also a rollicking and adventurous one. After all, Gideon has tried to escape the skeletal order of the Ninth House (try not to confuse this with Leigh Bardugo's latest novel) almost a hundred times in her not-too-many years, and as the book begins, she's going again - this time, even willing to barter away a dirty magazine or two to get the job done. Reading like a collaboration between Laura Lam and Jasper Fforde, this first book of a highly original new trilogy is gleefully screwball and unpredictable, though one thing that's not so gleeful? The ending, in which Muir sets up a devastating cliffhanger leading up into next year's Harrow the Ninth.
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