

Least – full of the ordinary people who make up the world of the Locked Tomb,Īlbeit those living under the threat of annihilation. The empire’s elite, Nona the Ninth’s city setting is – on first glance, at The vibes of the setting are different: rather than being at the heart of This is a fantastic video recap which covers the key points and some of the You don’t remember the finer details of that book. Same way Harrow the Ninth does, there’s still zero contextual hand holding if Into a story that jumps off from a fundamentally different place to its predecessor,Īnd while it doesn’t use the reader’s likely confusion as a plot point in the Speaking of bold moves, Nona the Ninth plunges the reader

Locked Tomb is all about, and here we are. After the edginess of Gideon and Harrow, it’s a bold move toĬentre book three around a protagonist who could be outperformed on theĮdginess stakes by a Minions meme, but it’s the kind of bold move that The Oh, and she’s also relentlessly chipperĪnd optimistic, exuding a vibe that is somewhere between “born sexy yesterday”Īnd “live laugh love” in the face of the pretty relentless misery of her Or writing but can inherently understand all spoken languages, she detestsĮating human food but sometimes thinks about how nice it would be to eat sand - and her hair grows really, really fast. She heals absurdly fast, she’s completely incapable of reading Aside from being a six-month-oldĬonsciousness in a nineteen-year-old’s body, Nona has a whole bunch of other (different person, same body) and Pyrrha Dve. In a wartorn city in the apartment she shares with Camilla Hect, Palamedes Sextus Old consciousness inhabiting Harrow’s body, by all accounts enjoying her life Six monthsĪfter the dramatic climax of the previous book, Muir introduces us to the six-month Of Harrow the Ninth and which provides much of Nona the Ninth’s central mystery. That’s the question, first asked in the epilogue

Before we get to hang out with Alecto, first we must And yet, we were all of us deceived,įor another book was made. As far as we all knew, the Locked Tomb was to beĪ trilogy, ending this year with Alecto the Ninth. Ghosts of its own planets, and of the absurd number of poor emotional choices

The Locked Tomb is a series of (obligatory “spoilers start here” warning) wisecrackingĬosmic cultists, of necromancers and their swordhands and the (literally) soulĭestroying things they’ve done to keep their cursed empire safe from the vengeful Starting with Gideon the Ninth and continuing into Harrow the Ninth, Signal) since 2020, I’m going to assume you know about Tamsyn Muir’s Locked Tomb So, unless you’ve been locked in a tomb (with no wifi
