![]() ![]() As it turns out, that was a very practical emotional defense to have going into Nona. ![]() When I heard this news in the lead-up to Nona the Ninth’s release, I made peace with the possibility that previous protagonists Gideon and Harrow might not appear in this book at all. ![]() But Tamsyn Muir has since revealed that the first act of the novel ballooned while she was writing it, to the point that Muir’s editor forced her to break the manuscript into two books instead. Alecto the Ninth is listed in all books published so far, and according to the author, the Locked Tomb was indeed intended to be a trilogy from the beginning. Now, if you haven’t been keeping up with news of the series since you put down Harrow, you might be wondering-wasn’t the third book in the trilogy going to be Alecto the Ninth? And you wouldn’t be wrong. But after collectively turning our minds into pretzels trying to figure out what exactly was happening there, we finally have part three of the Locked Tomb series in Nona the Ninth. Three years ago, Harrow the Ninth managed to be both a hotly anticipated and shockingly unexpected followup to Tamsyn Muir’s debut novel. ʼTis at last that most frightful and morbid of months, a spooky season of ghosts and ghouls, the danse macabre we raise our jaded bones to join but once each year-October is here! And not a moment too soon, because it’s time to check in on everyone’s favorite lesbian necromancers from space. ![]()
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