You’ve never read anything like Tamsyn Muir’s debut novel 'Gideon The Ninth.'
The book is a mashup of sci-fi and dark fantasy genres set in a decrepit galaxy with nine planets. A necromancer and bodyguard knight from each planet gather together for the first time in millennia to jump through some opaque hoops at the behest of the Necrolord Prime and maybe save their home planets from slow deaths.
And it doesn’t come across as gimmicky or slipshod. If you enjoy browsing memes or joking with friends, you’ll enjoy this prose. . The end result of the plot and prose combo is just a totally goony fun page-turner that really needs to be on everyone’s reading list this fall. Thanks, I’ll take ‘unique prose style’ to the bank! I wasn’t consciously aiming to emulate Twitter, but one of the things I was really aiming for with the book was an irreverent tone to balance out the horror aspect and some of the heavier, more Gormenghastian stylings. I wanted a book that was absolutely saturated with horrible things, but leavened with a more flippant narrative style.
a serious moment with a Gideon joke rather than underscore it. But that was in the minority — generally the two balanced each other out. You could taste when the peanut butter was drowning out the chocolate. so
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