[Abyss]

BfuckinK, on 05 November 2019 - 04:57 PM, said:

Ugh more location lockdown. I just got way way way less excited.

Silence meatbag.

[champ]

I had hoped that it would branch out and we would get to see a lot more of the universe but I didn't have an issue with the closed setting in the first book so I doubt it'll bother me with this one...

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Well, Django does say it's a book "...covering forty billion light-years."

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

BfuckinK, on 06 November 2019 - 01:45 AM, said:

Hopefully so or it’s probably going to go verrrry slowly for me. The “sealed in” line doesn’t give me hope. Hopefully it’s a sprawling complex and not as confining as an oil platform at sea.

Yawn

Opening line LEAK:

"After traveling 40-billion light years in the Emperor's Deadship Primossus, we arrived at his two-room necrobunker, complete with bone bidet and bone bathtub. We'll be hanging here for the next year."

This post has been edited by Whisperzzzzzzz: 06 November 2019 - 08:47 PM

[Abyss]

SPOILERS: dead people, skeletons.

[Abyss]

BfuckinK, on 06 November 2019 - 01:45 AM, said:

Hopefully so or it's probably going to go verrrry slowly for me. The "sealed in" line doesn't give me hope. Hopefully it's a sprawling complex and not as confining as an oil platform at sea.

Yawn

You DO know it's called 'The Locked Tomb Trilogy', yes?

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Abyss, on 07 November 2019 - 06:52 PM, said:

BfuckinK, on 06 November 2019 - 01:45 AM, said:

Hopefully so or it's probably going to go verrrry slowly for me. The "sealed in" line doesn't give me hope. Hopefully it's a sprawling complex and not as confining as an oil platform at sea.

Yawn

You DO know it's called 'The Locked Tomb Trilogy', yes?

I actually didn't. For some reason, I thought it was The Ninth House series.

This post has been edited by Whisperzzzzzzz: 07 November 2019 - 09:22 PM

[amphibian]

BfuckinK, on 07 November 2019 - 07:33 PM, said:

Yes but that’s a place on dreahburg that’s clearly important to the story. Certainly hope it’s not a guideline for them.

It's the name of the trilogy. What are you expecting in terms of not making it a guideline of the series?

[Abyss]

amphibian, on 07 November 2019 - 09:41 PM, said:

BfuckinK, on 07 November 2019 - 07:33 PM, said:

Yes but that's a place on dreahburg that's clearly important to the story. Certainly hope it's not a guideline for them.

It's the name of the trilogy. What are you expecting in terms of not making it a guideline of the series?

I for one am expecting a bunch of locked tombs!!!!

But the point is GID took place in one location very much in keeping with its gothic lit roots, and it seems (to the extent we can derive anything from a blurb) that HARROW will follow a similar pattern, and therefore BK should give up and go read his other six ongoing books or something.

[Salt-Man Z]

If anyone still MUST HAVE the black-edged first edition, there's one at my Half Price Books for $21. PM me if interested; I've got a coupon I can use tomorrow, too.
This has been spoken for.

This post has been edited by Salt-Man Z: 09 November 2019 - 04:11 PM

[Macros]

Finally got around to finishing this today.

Colour me underwhelmed after the hype train.

Called it loosely with my initial prediction, but that didn't bother me.

I just didn't like the characters or their voices.
Grated on me too much to enjoy the world building, story and setting, that is all fun and well done.

[Traveller]

I finished too. Not underwhelmed, I enjoyed it, voices and all. I did find a lot of the characters fairly interchangeable though, to the point where I couldn't remember who was who all the time towards the end, which broke it up a bit as I kept having to go back and check.

Maybe not quite as good as I was expecting, but I did enjoy it.

[Aptorian]

Just finished Gideon the 9th. I thought it was awesome and I'm there day one for the sequel.

It dragged a bit in the middle but the payoff was well worth it. I love that you got to see the Necromancers go all out and they demonstrated other forms than just Harrow's bonemagic.

Edit: Fuck it, I just pre-ordered it.

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 26 November 2019 - 11:56 AM

[Cause]

Somewhat underwhelmed after the forum hype. I found it a confusing read. The book takes place in a world that is never fleshed our. Gideons original dream is to fight in the cohort, i still don’t even know who they are fighting or why? The ninth house is tiny but I still don’t know if everyone in the empire is a member of a house or they are just the ruling elite of others below them. I still don’t know if they love the emperor or just fear his godlike power. Well the ending seemed to clear that up a bit but again who are they fighting and why?

The rules and possibilities of necromancy remain unclear. People can do what they can do and not do what they can’t. Despite this, I managed to guess at the big lyctor secret, with one minor difference in my mind based on the locked tomb. The big reveal was also somewhat obvious, although I couldn’t guess why, the notice or anything like that who it would be seemed clear by the tropes of the genre.

[Aptorian]

I found the lack of info about the universe frustrating at first but there's also something clever about not giving the reader an info dump and instead slowly discover from the other houses that the 9nth is a backwaters hellhole away from what goes on in the rest of the universe.

[Abyss]

Moreover, what did you need to know to appreciate the story, but didn't?

[Morgoth]

Aptorian, on 17 February 2020 - 03:58 AM, said:

I found the lack of info about the universe frustrating at first but there's also something clever about not giving the reader an info dump and instead slowly discover from the other houses that the 9nth is a backwaters hellhole away from what goes on in the rest of the universe.

And that it's a closely kept secret, retained by the house. To the other houses the ninth are mysterious and esoteric, their life and powers a frightful mystery.

[Abyss]

Interesting interview w author....

http://threecrowsmag...my-dance-floor/


Elsewhere Tor let it be known that HARROW apparently ends on a cliffhanger. I admit to mild annoyance because i just generally dislike that, but since the wait for bk 3 will supposedly be one year max, and GIDEON was just that much fun, i'll leave my preorder where it is.

[Tiste Simeon]

My only main hope for HARROW is that they use the same audiobook narrator because she was outstanding.

[Cause]

I feel meh about the sequel. Only a mild curiosity to actually learn about the universe makes me want to read more. I found the story itself otherwise just so so