Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

How many legs do I have?

Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3) by Tamsyn Muir

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Three months later: I’ve had some time to adjust. This book is still wild, and while I’ve come to terms with most of it, there’s one thing that’s still bothering me. I’m hoping it will be resolved in the last book. No idea how she’s going to manage it, but she somehow managed to pull Harrow and Nona out of her butt, and they are both weird and mad genius in their own special ways, so I’m sure she’ll manage it, but I will not lie, I am […]

Hopefully it’s just series sophmore slump

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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Potentially unpopular opinion ahead: I did not especially like Harrow the Ninth. I loved Gideon the Ninth, but I don’t think all the narrative experimenting and the pacing worked out well here. After Harrow becomes a Lyctor and Gideon is gone, about 85 percent of the Harrow the Ninth is confusion. The narrative switches between second and third person (there’s also some first person but that is mostly later) and neither voice really knows what’s going on; on the one hand, this makes sense because […]

Nona would love to meet Mosscap, don’t you think?

Nona the Ninth by Tamysn Muir

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Proper review, a month or so after finishing the book: What it’s only been five weeks since this book came out??? As a sidebar, someone once sent me this scrolling diagram thing to demonstrate why time seems to fly by as you get older and ever since I’ve been terrified of this happening. Why would you find the world less enthralling as you got older? I understand not everything is a first, but there’s so much to do in the world and it’s so fascinating why […]

Gideon and Harrow, retread

Gideon the Ninth by Tamysn Muir

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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Re-read, September 2022, in advance of Nona Wow. What a change 17 months makes? (edited to note: I originally felt like Gideon was 3.5 stars, too confusing by half, not the best thing I’d read but I was interested to read more) I originally read this in a bit of a weird space. I had made some pretty momentous decisions in my personal life, but due to the whole COVID of it all wasn’t in a place to put them into motion for another half […]

“Do you know who I am yet?”

Nona the Ninth: The Locked Tomb vol. 3 by Tamsyn Muir

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CBR14 Bingo: “Question” – Figuring out Nona’s identity is a core element of the book. This is a spoiler free review.  I am so glad to have made the decision to throw my reading plans out the window and reread Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth  before reading Nona the Ninth.  Having everything fresh in my mind was helpful because once again Muir throws the reader into the deep end of the pool, expecting one to keep afloat until things gel together. Nona is unlike […]

“Your body was numb to grief; perhaps you had felt it once, but you did not feel it anymore.”

Harrow the Ninth: The Locked Tomb vol. 2 by Tamsyn Muir

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CBR14: Bingo “Funky” – Much of Harrow the Ninth is written in second person perspective which is odd enough on its own but Muir also mixes in first and third perspective as well, making this a truly funky read. Spoilers:  This is a review of a reread and will contain spoilers.  Continue only if you’ve read Harrow the Ninth.  Spoiler Free review here.         Reading Harrow the Ninth the first time was challenging on a variety of levels. I was struggling processing my own grief while reading […]



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