Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn MuirMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Tamsyn Muir got off to a pretty kickass start with her complex, obscenely disturbingly cool Gideon the Ninth, but after the horrifying twist ending to that one, where could she go next? Why, into even deeper levels of instability, of course. Harrow the Ninth now gets into the head of the young princess of the Ninth House, now one of the Emperor's new Lyctors, but the ending of the first book has left her with a pretty serious mental split. In addition to half the book being told in a peculiar second-person perspective (like Muir got possessed by the spirit of N.K. Jemisin), we get a good three or four fifths of the book kinda lowkey pretending like that big twist from Book 1 didn't happen. But then right around pages 350-400 or so, the veil falls away, and we finally get a ton of answers and even more unexpected and scary twists, murders on top of murders and truths on top of truths...holy Necrolord Prime, Batman! Only one more to go in this trilogy, which of course I'll be autobuying next year. I hope...
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