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Tamsyn Muir

Teoksen Gideon the Ninth tekijä

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Associated Works

The Time Traveller's Almanac (2013) — Avustaja — 559 kappaletta
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five (2013) — Avustaja — 121 kappaletta
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Eight (2016) — Avustaja — 107 kappaletta
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 Edition (2013) — Avustaja — 64 kappaletta
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2016 Edition (2016) — Avustaja — 57 kappaletta
Zombies: More Recent Dead (2014) — Avustaja — 55 kappaletta
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2016 Edition (2016) — Tekijä — 44 kappaletta
Far Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy (2021) — Avustaja — 44 kappaletta
Clarkesworld: Issue 111 (December 2015) (2015) — Tekijä, eräät painokset14 kappaletta
Tor.com Short Fiction: Sept/Oct 2020 (2020) — Avustaja — 6 kappaletta
Nightmare Magazine, December 2017 (2017) — Avustaja — 3 kappaletta

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Yleistieto

Syntymäaika
1985-03-14
Sukupuoli
female
Kansalaisuus
Aotearoa / New Zealand
Maa (karttaa varten)
New Zealand
Ammatit
author
Agentti
Jennifer Jackson (Donald Maass Literary)

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Kirja-arvosteluja

Again I find myself of a couple different minds on this book. This book so far has the most consistent reading narrative. Personally, however, I find myself caught in that space where I'm not interested enough in the writing to want to read the book, but I am interested to see where the story goes, and if my speculations are correct. To that end, I did find myself more interested in the secondary narrative of John's over Nona's.

It took a bit but Nona did grow on me, and I have to applaud Muir for what feels like a very adept portrayal of kids.… (lisätietoja)
 
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WeeTurtle | 34 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 19, 2024 |
I still don't know how to feel about this book. Most of it is SO CONFUSING, and a fair bit of it is SO GROSS, but the writing is SO GORGEOUS.
 
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ledonnelly | 83 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 11, 2024 |
Superbly unique and darkly funny! This feels like a fever dream born of Gail Carson Levine and Neil Gaiman- and it’s very much worth a read.
 
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deborahee | 12 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 23, 2024 |
Closer to 4/4.5 but I'm rounding up because it was a genuinely wild and fun story! "Gideon the Ninth" is like Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" but set in space and the characters are all necromancers and cavaliers, so that really just set the stage for a good time. I grew to love multiple characters, especially Gideon and Harrowhawk, who steal the show. Seriously, the relationship between Gideon and Harrow just GUTTED me at points and I was losing my mind during certain scenes. Also, I really liked the setting: I'm a sucker for an abandoned palace/house plot point and I think this one was well executed.

On the flip side, the cast of characters is HUGE and they aren't introduced in a very easy to follow way. I kept having to flip back to the character list (thank goodness there was one) and remember who was who. Also, some characters are referred to by multiple names; Gideon alone is call Gideon, Griddle, Nav, Cav, etc. and it's even more difficult when this happens with side characters the reader doesn't know very well yet. There are two characters whose names start with "P" and I constantly mixed them up until about 3/4 into the book.
The other main thing I think needed revision were the descriptions/explanations of certain magical things. There is a necromancy science that seems to underlie the magic system, which is cool, but there is so much talk of it that just went right over my head. I couldn't even begin to comprehend what they MIGHT be talking about. I just felt lost when the characters were trying to figure out the Big Mystery because I didn't (and kind of still don't?) understand what was at stake.
Finally, the worldbuilding is very thin and needs work, BUT because the novel was so contained to really one area this didn't bother me too much. The first 30 or so pages of the novel I struggled with because a lot was thrown in my face at once, but as the plot settled down it was okay.

On the whole: a super fun read that was never what I thought it was going to be, and I was downright shocked at times. I hope the sequel goes through some better revision, and Muir is able to smooth over some clunkier bits of writing, but I'm definitely planning on reading it.
… (lisätietoja)
 
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deborahee | 178 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 23, 2024 |

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