Nona the Ninth

(The Locked Tomb #3)

by Tamsyn Muir

Hardcover, 496 pages

English language

Published Sept. 12, 2022 by Tor.com.

ISBN:: 9781250854117

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(18 reviews)

Her city is under siege.

The zombies are coming back.

And all Nona wants is a birthday party.

In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona's not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back.

The whole city is falling to pieces. A monstrous blue sphere hangs on the horizon, ready to tear the planet apart. Blood of Eden forces have surrounded the last Cohort facility and wait for the Emperor Undying to come calling. Their leaders want Nona to be the weapon that will save them from the Nine Houses. Nona would prefer to live an ordinary life with the people she loves, with Pyrrha and Camilla and Palamedes, but …

Her city is under siege.

The zombies are coming back.

And all Nona wants is a birthday party.

And each night, Nona dreams of a woman with a skull-painted face...

3 editions

ju reviewed Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Good but frustrating

3 stars

It's a bit of a disappointment that, yet again, the reader is left to try to make sense of the characters, plot and wtf is going on. I wish I didn't have to go on forums to find out important information that was only very, very slightly hinted at in the book. It's one thing to want revelations and plot-twists and ah-ah-moments, it's another to leave the reader completely in the fog for 500 pages. If the writing wasn't that good and the characters that compelling, I would've left it a while ago.

anaulin@bookwyrm.social reviewed Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Fun new Ninth character, more Locked Tomb universe backstory

5 stars

Nona, the new Ninth character is different and very amusing. The setting is a planet with "regular" humans, and there is more backstory filled in on John/God and the general shape of the Locked Tomb universe.

Jules reviewed Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Nona and that other guy

5 stars

Nona the Ninth answers the eternal question that vexed a generation of 90s kids: What if god was one of us?

Tak! reviewed Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Nona the Ninth

5 stars

It shouldn't be possible, after reading Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth, to finish another Locked Tomb novel and yet again be like "What the hell did I just read?!" However.

Nona the Ninth is yet another wonderful, unexpected, weird masterpiece from Tamsyn Muir.