Like most of the Locked Tomb books, Nona does have a rather slow start before all hell starts to break loose. On the whole, I did find that Nona was a lot less confusing than the last two books, probably because Harrow gave us so much information and backstory about John, and the Lyctors and Blood of Eden.

I cannot imagine reaching the end of this life and having any regrets, so long as I had been allowed to experience being your adept.” “We had something very nearly perfect … the perfect friendship, the perfect love. “Camilla, we did it right, didn’t we?” Palamedes said. Move over Griddlehark, these two are now my fav necro-cav pair (i'm sorry okay). Not to mention Camilla and Palamedes, for whom I would die a thousand fiery deaths. I still find Harrow to be my favorite installment yet, but Nona features my favorite character in the series yet, Nona! Yes, I know Gideon is almost everyone's favorite, but after finishing this book, I found myself deeply attached to Nona. That does not make it any less of a story, rather it makes it all the more tender and fragile. Nona the Ninth was a very different book from the previous two books in the series, it's a slow burn, and instead of the typical action necromancy setting, we have a more civilian/domestic approach to the story. I am sobbing like an idiot, this book was everything I wanted. Reading a Locked Tomb book is the equivalent of trying to understand an intricate chess game, while Muir gaslights you by saying there was no chess game, it was a football match all along.

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