7/8/2023 0 Comments Gideon the ninth audio book![]() ![]() ![]() Gideon Nav is the eponymous protagonist of Gideon the Ninth. And because much of the novel is a breezy, punchy, irreverent, gothic necromantic adventure (in space!), the impact of the weird squickiness is dispersed until the very closing pages. The ending makes me question whether the book understands how much and in which specific ways that relationship is fucked up, the adversarial abusiveness and weird co-dependence of it all. Gideon the Ninth knows its central interpersonal relationship is seriously fucked up. It’s also a novel that’s about a deeply unhealthy central relationship, one that left me exquisitely uncomfortable with its ultimate trajectory, and a story that doesn’t do quite enough work to earn the ending of its emotional arc. It’s an interesting novel with some seriously batshit worldbuilding and a strong, compelling voice. (I can think of a bare handful that came close.) Gideon the Ninth doesn’t, either: it’s not a piercing revelation or the perfection of the form. Lesbian necromancers in space! Gothic cutthroat politics! Epic shit! You’ll love this, a number of people told me, and I grew more and more averse to opening its cover.įirst novels almost never live up to their publicity. Gideon the Ninth, debut novel by much-hyped new voice Tamsyn Muir, is a book that spent several months on my shelf while I wrestled with my mixed feelings about how very hyped it has been since I first heard of it. Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir ( Tor.com Publishing 978-9-5, $25.99, 448pp, hc) September 2019. ![]()
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