Harrow the Ninth

, #2

Paperback, 528 pages

English language

Published April 12, 2021 by Tor.com.

ISBN:
978-1-250-31321-8
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THE NECROMANCERS ARE BACK, AND THEY'RE GAYER THAN EVER.

SHE ANSWERED THE EMPEROR'S CALL.

SHE ARRIVED WITH HER ARTS, HER WITS, AND HER ONLY FRIEND.

IN VICTORY, HER WORLD HAS TURNED TO ASH.

Harrowhark Nonagesimus, last necromancer of the Ninth House, has been drafted by her Emperor to fight in an unwinnable war. Side by side with a detested rival, Harrow must perfect her skills and become an angel of undeath - but her health is failing, her sword makes her nauseous, and even her mind is threatening to betray her.

Sealed in the gothic gloom of the Emperor's Mithraeum with three unfriendly teachers, hunted by the mad ghost of a murdered planet, Harrow must confront two unwelcome questions: Is somebody trying to kill her? And if they succeeded, would the universe be better off?

After rocking the cosmos with her deathly debut, Tamsyn Muir continues the story of the …

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reviewed Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #2)

What the hell is going on?

Our favourite necromancer has risen to the ranks of the most powerful, who are rather Machiavellian but disconcertingly human. In the process though, she has lost her marbles, and we are left without any certainty as to what the hell is going on, and doubts undermine our memory of the first book. Which is mostly bearable because it eventually unravels, only to be frustrated by an unwelcome dumping of unresolved head-scratchers which demands some re-reading. More serious than the first book, without the swagger.