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The Locked Tomb trilogy: teenage lesbian necromancers... IN SPAAAAACE!!!!

Rosewood

The metal babble flees!
(she/her)
A sneak preview of the first handful of chapters of Nona the Ninth is available in ebook.
 

Paul le Fou

24/7 lofi hip hop man to study/relax to
(He)
I never even read the first chapter yet! Agh we're only partway through our Gideon re-listen, we haven't even gotten to Harrow yet!
 

Rosewood

The metal babble flees!
(she/her)
I listened to Gideon and Harrow (vs eye-reading which I did the first time) recently myself--finished Harrow just last week. Harrow in particular benefited a lot from a second go-through and I ended up loving and feeling for her just as much as I had Gideon (which wasn't really the case, first time around). Great narration, highly recommended if you have access to it.

My plan for Nona is to go about it similarly: eye-read it, go to the internet to learn about the things my dumb brain couldn't figure out for itself, and reread in audio before Alecto comes out.
 

Paul le Fou

24/7 lofi hip hop man to study/relax to
(He)
K is all about audiobooks, so while I read words the first time for each I've since listened to Harrow again once and Gideon again...probably six times? (She also likes to fall asleep to audiobooks, so one or another is usually the soundtrack to bedtime, and Gideon has been a mainstay in the rotation ever since I finally got her to listen to it the first time). I have basically no choice in listening to Nona on audiobook, but this time it'll probably be my first read, or I might read along with the book (never done that before, but it could be interesting?).

And I've said it before, but I'll say it again over and over every chance I get: Moira Quirk's read of these two books (so far) is the best audiobook reading I've ever heard. There are so many characters and she gives each and every one an immediately recognizable distinct voice, each of them loaded with so much personality. You could even forget that this is one person doing all of those voices. I seriously cannot praise it highly enough.
 

Rosewood

The metal babble flees!
(she/her)
I listen to audiobooks with phone + earbuds to get to sleep at least 70% of the time. Saying a book is a sure cure for insomnia is a joke for most people, but when it comes to a familiar, loved book and a listener with a brain that spins itself sleepless more often than is good for it, it's a huge plus. I might not choose these specifically, but I totally get behind the general idea.
 

Paul le Fou

24/7 lofi hip hop man to study/relax to
(He)
Yeah. And for what it's worth, we only use books we've read before to fall asleep to, otherwise we'd get hooked and stay up all night (or lose our place and have to worry about finding it). When you've listened to a book 5-10 times you don't need to worry so much if you miss a chapter here or there.
 

Rosewood

The metal babble flees!
(she/her)
Finished reading the Nona preview. My e-reader says it's 68 pages long, so it's a decent chunk of what will be a 500-ish page book. It definitely leaves off at a place that makes me anxious to see more. Mission accomplished, Tor.com!
 

Paul le Fou

24/7 lofi hip hop man to study/relax to
(He)
waaaaahhhhhhh my preorder copy hasn't even shipppppped yettttttttttt (and we're not done relistening to Harrooooooooooowwwwwwww)
 

lincolnic

can stop, will stop
(he/him)
I just finished my second read of Harrow last night, and I enjoyed it a whole lot more this time. But my library hasn't gotten Nona in yet so I'm feeling as whiny as Paul.

I think I'm gonna check out of this thread until I get to read it just to avoid any potential spoilers.
 

Positronic Brain

Out Of Warranty
(He/him)
I am 20% in. I'm savoring it slowly but, yes, it's really, really good. And is removing the fog from the lore much, much faster than I expected.
 

Paul le Fou

24/7 lofi hip hop man to study/relax to
(He)
My copy arrived at the mail! The tracking number was wrong!!

I still can't read it yet!!!
 

Rosewood

The metal babble flees!
(she/her)
Interview with Tamsyn Muir about Nona and the Locked Tomb series. Heads up for the spoiler-averse, there are a couple of "spoilers for Nona" (jail for mother?) questions along the way that are clearly marked ahead of time.

 

Sarcasmorator

Same as I ever was
(He/him)
I'm a few chapters into Nona and liking it so far!

Every time Camilla Hect shows up in one of these books I have to look up which one she was in the first book, I can't keep it straight.
 

Sarcasmorator

Same as I ever was
(He/him)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

should've had fewer characters with three-syllable first names and single-syllable last names I guess
 

jpfriction

(He, Him)
Well, I mean, they are all number puns so you just need to memorize 9 weird societies based on all the fun different ways of raising the dead and cross reference the name. Easy peasy.
 

Positronic Brain

Out Of Warranty
(He/him)
I'd say your confusion is easy to clear up since Abigail is dead... but so is Palamedes. Just your usual necromantic occupational hazards, keeping track of who's alive, dead, undead or unliving. And that's before lyctors appear and they start playing shell games with souls..
 

Positronic Brain

Out Of Warranty
(He/him)
Just finished. It was a great book - as it's traditional, the book leaves you hungry for so much more. Can't wait for Alecto!

(the best line in the book has to be "To which a voice on the opposite side of the shore was raised, exceeding wroth, and Alecto heard it shout in a very great shout: Get in line, thou big slut.“)
 

Positronic Brain

Out Of Warranty
(He/him)
This post-Harrow The Ninth interview with Tamsyn Muir was brought to my attention this weekend. It's an old interview, but for those who haven't read it, here's an interesting excerpt (bold phrases emphasized by me):

I started out in Animorphs fandom (shout-out to TCDB) and spent most of my life in Final Fantasy fandom, although I know I’m very associated with Homestuck! To be honest, it was Final Fantasy that taught me everything I knew, because fandom looked so different there—for one thing there was a much more even spread in terms of gender, and a sense of struggle for who ‘owned’ the fandom (back then it was definitely a kind of touchy ‘GIRLS DON’T PLAY VIDEO GAMES’ so every bedraggled video-gaming girl kind of huddled in one place together, oozing sympathy). The humour side of fandom—and God bless every part of fandom that turns out parodies—was a kind of Venn diagram. I read through Fritz Fraundorf and Uncreativity like my life depended on it. There was this sense you could do anything. Being in Final Fantasy fandom was so weird in the first place that it didn’t matter that you had someone churning out a long, detailed band AU where Cloud Strife was a bassist when on the other hand you had a hard mil-SF take on SeeD and Garden where Squall Leonhart was basically doing Space Vietnam. (And the ship wars happened no matter what. We were all obsessed back then with whose ship had the most EVIDENCE. These scars? *EXHALES* They come from the Cloud/Tifa, Cloud/Aeris wars.)
I had read the interview before, but it hadn't clicked on me - no wonder I love these books, we grew up liking the same stuff. And the Nceromancer/Cavalier relationship being similar to the Sorceress/Knight relationship from FFVIII? Might not be a coincidence.
 
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