The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex

This was fun. Taking two side characters from the main Locked Tomb story line and giving them a locked room mystery. Sixth House is very different in feel from the places explored elsewhere, with an entertainingly obtuse bureaucracy and a much more lived in feel. This allows Tamsyn Muir to do what she does best and give a completely different style of story telling set all within the same universe. Her versatility is truly astounding.

Even though this is only a short story I already want to find out more about the Sixth House! A fun glimpse at another part of the Locked Tomb universe.

I feel like this would be fun to read right after reading the novels. I mean, I read Gideon less than a year ago, and I could barely follow this - there's a lot of opaque terms of art and references that are unintelligible without the books giving you some of the world-building code. That aside, this is fine. Nice to see inside a different House. The mystery is OK.