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Note to self: It was a terrible idea to jump directly into Nona the Ninth, when the last time I touched the series was back when Alecto was scheduled to be the third book.
I spent so long confused and disoriented, until the memories of Gideon and Harrow started coming back to me and helped provide some context for what was going on. (Although honestly, I feel like part of that disorientation is just automatically baked into the Locked Tomb series as a whole.)
There was a lot less necromancy in this one, and a lot more time dedicated to children with names like Born in the Morning, Honesty and Hotsauce. Half of the story is a creation myth for this world's universe, and I found that those were my favorite parts. I repeatedly found myself laughing at just how batshit insane everything was, and oh my god, the descriptions.
The other half of the story is looking at the civilian perspective on the war, and following Nona as she discovers herself, the universe, and the secrets that her little family are hiding.
I've learned my lesson, though. I hereby promise that right before Alecto comes out, I'm reading the books again to refresh my memory.
Note to self: It was a terrible idea to jump directly into Nona the Ninth, when the last time I touched the series was back when Alecto was scheduled to be the third book.
I spent so long confused and disoriented, until the memories of Gideon and Harrow started coming back to me and helped provide some context for what was going on. (Although honestly, I feel like part of that disorientation is just automatically baked into the Locked Tomb series as a whole.)
There was a lot less necromancy in this one, and a lot more time dedicated to children with names like Born in the Morning, Honesty and Hotsauce. Half of the story is a creation myth for this world's universe, and I found that those were my favorite parts. I repeatedly found myself laughing at just how batshit insane everything was, and oh my god, the descriptions.
The other half of the story is looking at the civilian perspective on the war, and following Nona as she discovers herself, the universe, and the secrets that her little family are hiding.
I've learned my lesson, though. I hereby promise that right before Alecto comes out, I'm reading the books again to refresh my memory.
Trivia? Science? Yeah, this is another one of my son's.
The facts in this book range from interesting to downright existential. I have learned things about human skin and the brain that I can never unlearn...
Trivia? Science? Yeah, this is another one of my son's.
The facts in this book range from interesting to downright existential. I have learned things about human skin and the brain that I can never unlearn...
My son aspires to be an endless fount of trivia, so you know that he was the one who picked this book. I'm pretty sure that his favorite part of the entire experience was looking up the events on all of the family's birthdates. There was a decent amount of historical information for each day, though some had more entries than others.
This book has had the unexpected bonus of making him more interested in history, as a subject. He generally sticks to science, but he's been seeking out more videos and books on history since he picked this one up. I love to see it!
My son aspires to be an endless fount of trivia, so you know that he was the one who picked this book. I'm pretty sure that his favorite part of the entire experience was looking up the events on all of the family's birthdates. There was a decent amount of historical information for each day, though some had more entries than others.
This book has had the unexpected bonus of making him more interested in history, as a subject. He generally sticks to science, but he's been seeking out more videos and books on history since he picked this one up. I love to see it!
This book is atmospheric AF - some people like haunted house stories, give me a haunted forest ANY DAY. Bonus points if the book's about people going missing or dying in the woods. I don't know, I can't explain it...it just works for me.
I really enjoyed the slow, melodramatic build-up to the various reveals in the story. I knew one of them as soon as it was introduced, but the journey getting there was still a lot of fun. You've got a lot going on, too...Naomi dealing with the inciting incident, Olivia calling her home out of the blue, having to come to terms with her father's hoarding issues and how much worse it's gotten since she moved away to escape everything, memories of the Goddess Game being unburied, the secret of Persephone, and a stranger coming into town to dig all of that up for a podcast episode.
The narrator was also really good - I'm just starting to get into audiobooks, so it was a nice introduction. It was an absolutely fascinating time.
This book is atmospheric AF - some people like haunted house stories, give me a haunted forest ANY DAY. Bonus points if the book's about people going missing or dying in the woods. I don't know, I can't explain it...it just works for me.
I really enjoyed the slow, melodramatic build-up to the various reveals in the story. I knew one of them as soon as it was introduced, but the journey getting there was still a lot of fun. You've got a lot going on, too...Naomi dealing with the inciting incident, Olivia calling her home out of the blue, having to come to terms with her father's hoarding issues and how much worse it's gotten since she moved away to escape everything, memories of the Goddess Game being unburied, the secret of Persephone, and a stranger coming into town to dig all of that up for a podcast episode.
The narrator was also really good - I'm just starting to get into audiobooks, so it was a nice introduction. It was an absolutely fascinating time.
