Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
She heeded the invitation of the Emperor. She came prepared with her skills, intelligence, and only buddy. Her world has been reduced to ashes by victory. In Harrow the Ninth, a mind-bending puzzle box of mystery, murder, magic, and mayhem, Tamsyn Muir continues the tale of the penumbral Ninth House after shattering the cosmos with her deathly debut. In the halls of the Emperor, nothing is as it seems, and one lady holds the key to the galaxy’s future. Her Emperor has chosen Harrowhark Nonagesimus, the last necromancer of the Ninth House, to fight in an unwinnable conflict.
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With a hated competitor, Harrow must hone her abilities to become an angel of undeath, but her health is deteriorating, her sword gives her the flu, and even her mind is in danger of turning against her.
Harrow must answer the difficult questions, “Is someone trying to kill her?” and “Who is the mad ghost of a slain planet?” while trapped in the gothic gloom of the Emperor’s Mithraeum with three unfriendly professors. And would the cosmos be better off if they were successful?
The story is told from the viewpoint of a jock who couldn’t have cared less about the story going on around her and was more interested in fitting in with the attractive women she was surrounded by. Gideon had a fantastic tale that included an old riddle, some terrifying necromantic practices, a small Agatha Christie murder mystery, and a conclusion that linked together many of the story’s subtly and quietly developed emotional beats.
The second book in a planned trilogy, Harrow the Ninth, has just been released. It switches the narrative from the jock warrior Gideon to the young, cunning necromancer Harrow, who is still processing what happened in Gideon and finds herself in a hostile environment while attempting to understand her place in a new hierarchy. Even without the strange memory-related issues raised in those chapters, Harrow the Ninth is undeniably dense and complex. When you add the change from Gideon’s careless, straightforward narration to Harrow’s careful, secretive perspective, the book feels exponentially more difficult than the original.
