Medium, Genre, and Format: adult romance/horror, novel, available in print, ebook, and audiobook.
Year published: 2020
Is it long, medium, or short?: long, at or near 400 pages.
It is for kids, teens, or adults only?: adults.
A cool quote from the work: "this was your shell, but it was all filled up with me. God, the double entendres were hard to resist."
Blurb: the sequel to Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth follows Harrowhark Nonageismus, who has failed to become a true Lyctor--a necromancer who has absorbed the soul of her cavalier. She is being both haunted by both visions and ghosts as she attempts to survive her time aboard the Mithraeum as one of God's chosen saints.
Why is it worth your time?: this book is extraordinarily good if you know what's going on (that is, body and mind sharing). The entire premise of Lyctorhood, one of the novel's defining world building aspects, is based on the idea of a secondary soul residing in a single body. There's even possession.
Plural Tags: bodysharing, mindsharing,interactions with people who are not considered 'real', soulsharing I guess?
Content Warnings: here's a neat list: -major emetophobia warning -death -corpses -hallucinations -so much violence. (This violence involves all manners of seemingly impossible gore due to the aforementioned necromancy.) -just a gore warning in general? -a lot of religious references. The main character has some religious compulsions. -self-harm -mentions of suicide
Accessibility Notes: audiobook available
Misc. Notes (if any): This book is not going to make much sense if you haven't read Gideon the Ninth, and I can't recommend reading one without the other. Although I'm firmly of the opinion that knowing about the bodysharing aspect in advance will only make the reading experience more enjoyable, it is technically a spoiler to know about at least one of the bodysharing relationships in this book.
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Harrow The Ninth
Date: 2023-02-21 05:20 am (UTC)Creator/s: Tamsyn Muir
Medium, Genre, and Format: adult romance/horror, novel, available in print, ebook, and audiobook.
Year published: 2020
Is it long, medium, or short?: long, at or near 400 pages.
It is for kids, teens, or adults only?: adults.
A cool quote from the work: "this was your shell, but it was all filled up with me. God, the double entendres were hard to resist."
Blurb: the sequel to Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth follows Harrowhark Nonageismus, who has failed to become a true Lyctor--a necromancer who has absorbed the soul of her cavalier. She is being both haunted by both visions and ghosts as she attempts to survive her time aboard the Mithraeum as one of God's chosen saints.
Why is it worth your time?: this book is extraordinarily good if you know what's going on (that is, body and mind sharing). The entire premise of Lyctorhood, one of the novel's defining world building aspects, is based on the idea of a secondary soul residing in a single body. There's even possession.
Plural Tags: bodysharing, mindsharing,interactions with people who are not considered 'real', soulsharing I guess?
Content Warnings: here's a neat list:
-major emetophobia warning
-death
-corpses
-hallucinations
-so much violence. (This violence involves all manners of seemingly impossible gore due to the aforementioned necromancy.)
-just a gore warning in general?
-a lot of religious references. The main character has some religious compulsions.
-self-harm
-mentions of suicide
Accessibility Notes: audiobook available
Misc. Notes (if any): This book is not going to make much sense if you haven't read Gideon the Ninth, and I can't recommend reading one without the other. Although I'm firmly of the opinion that knowing about the bodysharing aspect in advance will only make the reading experience more enjoyable, it is technically a spoiler to know about at least one of the bodysharing relationships in this book.