5/25/2023 0 Comments Harrow gideonBecause, as it turns out, Harrow needs Gideon’s help. Tired of a life beholden to the malicious Harrow, Gideon tries to escape, only to be found and defeated by the necromancer and her army of skeletons. She hates Reverend Daughter Harrowhark Nonagesimus - the de facto mistress of the house, the only person her age most of all. Gideon has grown up surrounded by skeletons, undead, dust, and a populace that - barring her and one other - could convincingly pass for the dead. Gideon Nav is an indentured retainer of the Ninth House, which specializes in raising skeletons, from the smallest of bone shards. So, was the hype worth all of that? It absolutely was. And the book was on everyone’s TBR lists - five months before release. Then, in April I attended the Futurescapes Writers Workshop, where the instructors were all editors, authors, or agents in the speculative fiction world. She then had a guest speaker - a sales rep for Penguin - corroborate this the rep had read the ARC of the book, and she was absolutely floored by it. The SF publishing industry was crazy about the new sci-fi/goth horror/fantasy(?) debut by Tamsyn Muir. Eight months ago, while I was completing my final semester at Emerson College, my book marketing professor spoke of Gideon the Ninth incessantly.
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