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Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth is an absolute revelation. It's gothic science fantasy that takes elements of Agatha Christie's AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (bunch of strangers stranded in a closed environment, having to work together or compete to solve a mystery) and mixes it with about a million other things—from adventure to horror to humour—to supremely satisfying results. Isabel Yap once "described it as "the closes thing to a JRPG in book form," and she's absolutely right. It's been getting a
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I can’t remember ever enjoying a book so thoroughly while simultaneously having little clue as to what the hell was going on. The world (universe) created by Tamsyn Muir is slowly revealed in tiny bits and pieces as the story progresses but even at the end I still had thousands of questions I wanted to know about this fascinating setting. This confusion however takes a back seat to the outstanding and hilarious character of Gideon the Ninth (cavalier of the Ninth House) and her evolving relation
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