Gideon the Ninth

Unabridged, Length: 16 hours 49 minutes, Narrator: Moira Quirk

Publicado el 10 de Septiembre de 2019 por Recorded Books, Inc..

ISBN:
978-1-9800-0490-5
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4 estrellas (14 reseñas)

"The Emperor needs necromancers.

The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.

Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense.

Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants. The result is a heart-pounding epic science fantasy.

Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won’t set her free without a service.

Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of …

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Review of 'Gideon the Ninth' on 'Goodreads'

5 estrellas

Oh my GOD did I love this book! I didn't head into it with very high hopes even, as I've been let down by highly rated and recommended books before. While initially I was a little put off at some of the Marvel-movie-esque dialogue from the protagonist, I slowly settled into loving every bit of every single character written in this universe. To the point where "turbo cancer" absolutely took me out in the best way.

Muir has done an incredible job at crafting both an incredibly in-depth world and magic system. With such beautiful and ornate descriptions let you picture every single thing in remarkable clarity. As I mentioned prior, she's also crafted so many well rounded and intriguing characters that I wanted to know more about every. single. one of them. Even the assholes. I find most authors are either good at building worlds or building characters, Muir …

The only horror-genre novel I've ever liked?

Sin valoración

I'm not into horror. Period. Don't like to read it, don't like to watch it. Don't even really like to hear it talked about. But this was a good ride, engaging, with profoundly beautiful visual description. It managed to be quite long and complex, and yet still relatively simple too. It turned cliches about and brought them back with something new.

Spannende Ansätze

3 estrellas

Schönes Setting, doch zu wenig ausgebaut bisher die Welt. Manche Charas hätten spannend sein können, blieben aber zu oberflächlich, insbesondere halt 90% der Leute aus den anderen Häusern. Der Mittelteil war verworren, der Showdown dafür all over the place?! Werde mir die zwei Folge-Bücher mal anschauen. Mit gefiel auf jeden Fall der space goth Aspekt davon sehr.

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dark fantasy for the jaded millennial

4 estrellas

I loved the characters in this book. Enough so that I greatly look forward to the next in the series. I did find the story structure telling a little light, and it often reminded me of epic adult Scooby Doo. It's a hybrid of the jaded millennial reluctantly participating in society (but on their own terms) and a Shakespeare-ian 5-act play, where the protagonist forms a band who tries to unmask the monster clue by clue. The telling was still lots of fun. I guess it just felt like it couldn't decide if it was quirky pop comedy or something deeper.

Review of 'Gideon the Ninth' on 'Goodreads'

4 estrellas

Una novela de cifi y magia, con muchas nigromantes, caballeras y un mundo creado por Tamsyn Muir expectacular. Te quedan ganas de saber más: quiero que llegue la segunda parte de la triología!

Mientras leía sentía que era una versión algo mamarracha (porque Gideon es la reina de las mamarrachas!) de “Y solo quedó uno”, con toques de Scaperoom. Las pruebas, las llaves, los misterios a resolver y no poderte fiar de nadie. En algunos momentos se me hacía lento, pero acelera en las últimas páginas y las piezas del puzzle tienen todo el sentido. De hecho, si prestas atención, las puedes identificar bastante bien.

Aunque Gideon da el nombre a la novela, es una obra coral y llegas a conocer bastante bien a todos los personajes. Gideon funciona muy bien para explicar al lector ciertos aspectos de la trama y del mundo nuevo que vamos descubriendo.

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A love-it-or-hate-it proposition

3 estrellas

Count me as one of the people who really can't stand the author's extremely strong authorial voice. Sometimes it was genuinely funny and I loved it but it was SO omnipresent and overbearing that eventually it felt like I was being told a pretty interesting scifi/fantasy story by someone who desperately needs me to find them hilarious.

I love the world it's set in, I love the whole goth cultists in space thing. I don't like the protagonist and I don't like that most of the characters are emotionally confused teenagers. It feels like I was tricked into reading a mislabeled YA novel. And like, YA is fine, but I like to know what I'm getting into ahead of time?

I think that if your sense of humor aligns with the author you might love this novel! But if you don't, you might hate it.

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Review of 'Gideon the Ninth' on 'Goodreads'

4 estrellas

I’ve got really mixed feelings about this book. There were moments that it was exactly what I wanted it to be, but then there were long stretches where it got into details about unnecessary things. Though later those things turned out to be important. So I guess the problem was that the foreshadowing was too subtle? I really liked the universe and the characters were memorable and well developed. I would recommend it with the caveat that it’s more of a mystery than an adventure.

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Temas

  • Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure
  • Fiction, fantasy, epic
  • Fiction, fantasy, dark fantasy
  • paranormal
  • necromancy