We meet Nona, who lives in a really shitty building in a really shitty city on a really shitty planet, torn by some kind of civil unrest.
What it didn't really have was a coherent story, or, frankly, a justification for its nearly 500 pages of length. It had pages - so many, many pages - and chapters, and characters, and things happening. Review: Well, this is certainly a book that was written. The baroque necropunk energy of this series is absolutely unique, and as a lover of strange worldbuilding, this has been one of my favorite works of the past decade. With that in mind, I expect that Nona's ending parts might also not be fully finalized and may change in the finished book.Ĭontext: I absolutely adored Gideon the Ninth and loved where Harrow the Ninth took the story, even if I found it harder to get into. However, in the case of Harrow the Ninth (which I was also lucky enough to read in ARC form) the finished book had DRAMATIC differences from the ARC, including a different ending to the final chapter, as well as the inclusion of the Nona epilogue. Typically, the only thing that changes between ARCs and finished books are typo fixes and some small word choices. I don't want to ruin anybody's enjoyment.ĭisclaimer 1: I literally just finished the book seconds ago, and my feelings may change as the impressions settle.ĭisclaimer 2: I read an ARC, as the book is not out yet. To my mind, as they are revealed in the first few pages of the book, and not treated as important, it did not occur to me to think of them as anything but setup info, and they genuinely tell you nothing about where the book goes. Edit: Apparently certain things I have written, are considered spoilers by folks.
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