Hardcover, 512 Seiten
Sprache: Russian
Am 16. Dezember 2020 von Эксмо veröffentlicht.
Мир «Гидеон из Девятого дома» Тэмсин Мьюир — это вселенная звездолётов, далёких солнц, мастеров фехтования, жестокой политики и лесбиянок-некромантов.
Воспитанная недружелюбными, окостеневшими монахинями, древними слугами и бесчисленными скелетами, Гидеон готова предать традиции и отказаться от рабства и загробной жизни в качестве живого мертвеца. Она зачехляет свой меч и готовится к дерзкому побегу. Но у Немезиды для неё другие планы.
Харрохак Нонагесимус, Преподобная дочь Девятого дома и экстраординарная костяная ведьма, отправляется в бой. Император призвал наследников каждого из верноподданных Домов на смертельный поединок — испытание ума и мастерства. Если Харрохак преуспеет, она станет бессмертной всемогущей слугой Бога Воскрешения. Но ни один некромант не может выступить без своего рыцаря. Без рапиры Гидеон, Харроу потерпит неудачу и Девятый дом вымрет.
Безусловно, некоторые вещи лучше оставить мёртвыми.
I’m not gonna pretend I didn’t spend at least 25% of this book unsure of exactly what was going on, but I had such a good time!!!
Just incredible. Pretty rare to find such and imaginative and rich world built into such a compelling narrative that is SO FUN. It's funny, heartbreaking, action-packed, mesmerizing, and thoughtful all at once. Can't wait to read the rest.
I'm not into horror. Period. Don't like to read it, don't like to watch it. Don't even really like to hear it talked about. But this was a good ride, engaging, with profoundly beautiful visual description. It managed to be quite long and complex, and yet still relatively simple too. It turned cliches about and brought them back with something new.
This book managed to be both pretty much what I was expecting and yet surprising at the same time.
Pop-Goth vibes. Science-Fantasy. Necromancy. Skeletons. Mysteries. WLW. Enemies to Lovers. Angst. Hurt/Comfort. Etc. Basically a wall of AO3 tags. I have been more or less aware of Gideon the Ninth for some time now, and from all of the fanart and mentions I saw of it I went in expecting all of the above. It had all of that and served it in plenty.
What surprised me about it was not the content, but rather how fresh and vibrant it was. It felt like the author loved what they were writing, loved the characters, and was just plain having fun. I found that tone to be infectious and charming, and by the end, I loved it all as much as the author did.
The characters were easily the standout elements. The …
This book managed to be both pretty much what I was expecting and yet surprising at the same time.
Pop-Goth vibes. Science-Fantasy. Necromancy. Skeletons. Mysteries. WLW. Enemies to Lovers. Angst. Hurt/Comfort. Etc. Basically a wall of AO3 tags. I have been more or less aware of Gideon the Ninth for some time now, and from all of the fanart and mentions I saw of it I went in expecting all of the above. It had all of that and served it in plenty.
What surprised me about it was not the content, but rather how fresh and vibrant it was. It felt like the author loved what they were writing, loved the characters, and was just plain having fun. I found that tone to be infectious and charming, and by the end, I loved it all as much as the author did.
The characters were easily the standout elements. The main pair were wonderful, with delightfully contrasting and conflicting personalities that made their interactions great reading. The side characters also felt unique and well realized, and even the most minor characters felt like integral parts of the book’s tableau.
There was some stuff I had to get accustomed to - the dialogue, for instance, feels very contemporary, despite being set in a science fantasy world (which is, I theorize, or hypothesize, our solar system in the far future?), which makes it very accessible to a YA audience and fun to read but feels a little anachronistic to everything else.
I do wish a little bit of the sapphic parts had been more overt, because I am a romantic sap and want it shoved in my face. I have high hopes for the future, however. Also, the names of some of the characters were a little difficult to keep straight, particularly because I was listening to the audiobook.
I feel like it is the kind of book that you will either love or hate. Will the sarcastic banter and contemporary styles of speech, and overtly “cool“ settings and magic seem childish and annoying? Or are you not an uptight and prudish stick-in-the-mud?
Ultimately, this book pushed all of my buttons just right. I found the world fascinating, it was full of great atmosphere in its setting, interesting twists and turns that surprised me once or twice, and most importantly I characters I grew to love despite their myriad flaws.
If you think all that sounds like something you would like, then I hope, like me, you will. I highly recommend it.
I loved the characters in this book. Enough so that I greatly look forward to the next in the series. I did find the story structure telling a little light, and it often reminded me of epic adult Scooby Doo. It's a hybrid of the jaded millennial reluctantly participating in society (but on their own terms) and a Shakespeare-ian 5-act play, where the protagonist forms a band who tries to unmask the monster clue by clue. The telling was still lots of fun. I guess it just felt like it couldn't decide if it was quirky pop comedy or something deeper.
I remember hearing about this book last year, but the tagline it was advertised with, "lesbian necromancers in space", didn't sound particularly appealing. Now, with the second book of the Locked Tomb trilogy just out, there was more talk about Gideon the Ninth, and these reviews sounded a lot better. After the borefest that was Gorky Park, I wanted something entertaining and picked up Gideon. And how glad I am I did. It's very good for a first novel, full of an interesting world and twists and turns. I can see why some people wouldn't like it, but I didn't see any faults in this book. My only problem was the vocabulary, which is oftentimes a bit too much if your native language isn't English. But it was still OK and I can't wait where the next books take the story.
I’ve got really mixed feelings about this book. There were moments that it was exactly what I wanted it to be, but then there were long stretches where it got into details about unnecessary things. Though later those things turned out to be important. So I guess the problem was that the foreshadowing was too subtle? I really liked the universe and the characters were memorable and well developed. I would recommend it with the caveat that it’s more of a mystery than an adventure.
