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Oct. 17th, 2022 08:22 pmGuys.
I've fallen in love with Tamsyn Muir.
I know. I know. I fall in love at least once a year. It's a song or a movie or a book and, well, yeah, maybe I'm fickle, but guys! It's always true.
Last night, I finished Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to Gideon the Ninth (which I read back in June).
I adored almost everything about it. Both of them. Kick ass lady necromancer heroes, being petty and bad ass. I love Gideon is so much awkwardness and muscle and how Harrowhark is mean and confident and wicked intelligent. I love how co-dependent and toxic they are. Tamsyn has me INVESTED in these two. She's got me committed! The world building is intricate and specific. The writing is cheeky and chatty and intense and elegant.
Harrow the Nonth is partially written in 2nd person and it does a really unique thing. It forces you to pay attention and unwind the story to try and figure out what is happening because guess what? You are not the YOU who is being told this story. It's a whole puzzle and I am totally HERE for it. The pettiness of humanity, how you should really never meet your heroes, and how even God is a lie because people are fallible.
Definitely not for every one. I think you really have to have a yen for epic, space opera fantasies filled with bones and the threat of Armageddon. And don't expect a linear story, tied neatly at the end with a bow. Muir does not write that. She really doesn't tell you more than you need to know at one time. She expects you to work for you endings and, again, LOVE. I'm taking something from that. Working to trim my excessiveness in writing, I'm committing to a return to my fanfic roots where I kinda didn't care if you got all of it or not.
I've found that, some people want you to spoon feed them EVERYTHING and some people don't. I'm in the don't camp and, there's an audience for that. I'm one of those kinds of readers.
I've fallen in love with Tamsyn Muir.
I know. I know. I fall in love at least once a year. It's a song or a movie or a book and, well, yeah, maybe I'm fickle, but guys! It's always true.
Last night, I finished Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to Gideon the Ninth (which I read back in June).
I adored almost everything about it. Both of them. Kick ass lady necromancer heroes, being petty and bad ass. I love Gideon is so much awkwardness and muscle and how Harrowhark is mean and confident and wicked intelligent. I love how co-dependent and toxic they are. Tamsyn has me INVESTED in these two. She's got me committed! The world building is intricate and specific. The writing is cheeky and chatty and intense and elegant.
Harrow the Nonth is partially written in 2nd person and it does a really unique thing. It forces you to pay attention and unwind the story to try and figure out what is happening because guess what? You are not the YOU who is being told this story. It's a whole puzzle and I am totally HERE for it. The pettiness of humanity, how you should really never meet your heroes, and how even God is a lie because people are fallible.
Definitely not for every one. I think you really have to have a yen for epic, space opera fantasies filled with bones and the threat of Armageddon. And don't expect a linear story, tied neatly at the end with a bow. Muir does not write that. She really doesn't tell you more than you need to know at one time. She expects you to work for you endings and, again, LOVE. I'm taking something from that. Working to trim my excessiveness in writing, I'm committing to a return to my fanfic roots where I kinda didn't care if you got all of it or not.
I've found that, some people want you to spoon feed them EVERYTHING and some people don't. I'm in the don't camp and, there's an audience for that. I'm one of those kinds of readers.
