If you are picking up Gideon the Ninth for the first time: Prepare to fall head-over-heels in love with the wise-cracking Gideon, who is basically a walking meme-machine.

The remixed genre tropes of Gideon the Ninth, explained. Enemies to lovers, And Then There Were None, and the other tropes of Tamsyn Muir’s genre-busting space opera.

In the first book, Gideon Nav is forced to be the cavalier to her planet’s chosen necromancer, Harrowhark “Harrow” Nonagesimus, if she ever wants to be free of service to Harrow the Ninth House.

You’ve never read anything like Tamsyn Muir’s debut novel 'Gideon The Ninth.' ... If you enjoy browsing memes or joking with friends, you’ll enjoy this prose.

So as I was going to write Gideon, I was just like, "I’m going to write lesbians as my 17-year-old self understood them — the other girls she was talking to, the girls she would go on to meet ...

Whatever you expected from Tamsyn Muir's followup to her lesbian-necromancers-in-space epic Gideon the Ninth, this is not that book — it's something wilder, darker and much, much weirder.

The Ninth sends Harrow, with Gideon (who has tried — and failed — to escape something like 600 times since being taken in) as her extremely reluctant cavalier. Sponsor Message The two of them ...

I couldn’t tell that there was anything wrong with Tamsyn Muir’s Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to last year’s Gideon the Ninth, until I sat down to summarize it.Confidently I poised my ...

But Gideon is an indentured servant, and her labor is owed to Harrowhark, the 17-year-old princess of the Ninth, most powerful necromancer of her generation, and Gideon’s childhood nemesis.