[Abyss]

Earbook is preordered. Very looking fwd.

[Salt-Man Z]

I will definitely be rereading the first two before tackling NONA. HARROW was confusing enough on its own; my having forgotten most of GIDEON by that point made it almost impenetrable (I still loved it.)

[Coltaine -]

I have preordered the book. Still a few days left until it arrives, so maybe I will manage a reread of Harrow beforehand.


By the way, Tor released an excerpt earlier this year. Nona is adorable in it and I really loved seeing the world through her eyes for the few pages available.

https://www.tor.com/...comment-page-1/

[champ]

Woah didn't realise this was so close! Ordered!

[Abyss]

Abyss, on 26 September 2019 - 10:38 PM, said:

BfuckinK, on 26 September 2019 - 09:08 PM, said:

I haven’t agreed to stone cold dick

Why, do you need to sleep on it first?

Hee hee, see what I did there?

[amphibian]

I reread Harrow the Ninth. I think it's a rather brilliant story about trying to deny death, being super messed up among a crowd of super messed up people, full of great action scenes and absolutely missing the last 5% of the book. 90% of it is a really rhythm breaking retelling/scene setting thing that's super difficult to pull off and Muir does it. Then 5% is the payoff. And the last 5% is missing from the book.

I'm well into Nona the Ninth and again, Muir decided to break rhythm with either of the two books before.

This is risky and I don't think I can fully evaluate how well it works until the last book comes out.

[Abyss]

amphibian, on 19 September 2022 - 03:00 AM, said:

I reread Harrow the Ninth. I think it's a rather brilliant story about trying to deny death, being super messed up among a crowd of super messed up people, full of great action scenes and absolutely missing the last 5% of the book. 90% of it is a really rhythm breaking retelling/scene setting thing that's super difficult to pull off and Muir does it. Then 5% is the payoff. And the last 5% is missing from the book.

I'm well into Nona the Ninth and again, Muir decided to break rhythm with either of the two books before.

This is risky and I don't think I can fully evaluate how well it works until the last book comes out.

3/4ths thru NONA, it's working DAMN well.
Holy necrofnck, this story utterly lulls the reader then BOOM.

[amphibian]

I'm finished and I am in the "I really like huge segments of this, but I need to wait until the last book comes out to know if it's worth it" crowd.

I think my main critique is that we spend a lot of time looking back on a certain character who it's genuinely de mystifying to know this level of things about. I'm not sure that's time best spent here. But again, we won't know until the last book and what rhythm breaking thing Muir does there.

[champ]

I'm at 95%... I think if I'd read this book ten year ago I would have dropped it due to not having enough patience...

We are at what was meant to be the final book, fair enough it is now a four book series but for 75% of this book it's all new and fresh just filling out the world which should have probably been done across books 1 and 2.

Yes, there are tidbits to move along the larger story and implications start to be introduced half way through but, well, I dunno, it's just jarring and a strange way to structure the series...

Is it a good book? Yeah it is for the story it tells, it is well wrote and a good read but when you take a step back and review the book as a part of the overall series it just seems a weird book...

I can see people having issue with this, especially after Harrow was such a dividing book...