She’s only half a Lyctor, and she doesn’t remember why. Somehow, despite us knowing the characters, the world, the Lyctor Eightfold Word process, Muir manages to drench the plot in mystery by very clever device – what to do when your POV is a genius that’s unlocked the secrets to near-immortality? Well … that’s something you’ll have to read to find out: Harrowhark the First is the Ninth Necrosaint to Serve the Necrolord Prime, a necromancer with unlimited thalergy and the ability to use complex theorems at will and in space she’s a Saint of untold power, but she’s incomplete. In short, the plot is crazy, personal and twisty I’ve no hope of properly distilling it without spoiler.

This sequel takes the gothic laboratory in space, seeped in mystery and necromantic theorems and flips it upside down with planet-sized Beasts of the Resurrection, terrorist orgs with nukes, God himself, Necrosaints to the Lord Undying, and bones … lots of bones.

Harrow the Ninth is the utterly full of mood sequel that we needed for the Locked Tomb the prose sings old harmonies from an ancient turntable, the needle screeching in eloquent – but drawn out – screams that dig deep into a sense of misguidance, a sense of the unknown dipped into depression and coated in necromancy. The cover is so damned beautiful … would you look at that? 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? 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. Harrowhark Nonagesimus, last necromancer of the Ninth House, has been drafted by her Emperor to fight an unwinnable war. Nothing is as it seems in the halls of the Emperor, and the fate of the galaxy rests on one woman’s shoulders. She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend.Īfter rocking the cosmos with her deathly debut, Tamsyn Muir continues the story of the penumbral Ninth House in Harrow the Ninth, a mind-twisting puzzle box of mystery, murder, magic, and mayhem.

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