Alessandro Piroddi finished reading Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb Trilogy)
"She answered the Emperor's call.
She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her …
First 30% is so jarring I almost put down the book for good 😵💫
The subsequent 30% is kind of a difficult read too, because I could see where everything was leading but DAMN it took too long and I kind of failed to care about anyone 😖
Final 40% is a page turner. Still not as good as Gideon. And it definitely overuses a certain "twist" that is kind of reapplied wholesale 1 2 3 times by the end of the book. But at least I wanted to read on to see what happened.
One AMAZING character arch and redemption moment is almost worth the whole book on its own.
Overall I wish Muir had delivered the same narrative in... a different way 😅