Nona the Ninth

Locked Tomb, Book 3

De: Tamsyn Muir

Narrado por: Moira Quirk

Her city is under siege.

The zombies are coming back.

And all Nona wants is a birthday party.

In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona's not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back.

The whole city is falling to pieces. A monstrous blue sphere hangs on the horizon, ready to tear the planet apart. Blood of Eden forces have surrounded the last Cohort facility and wait for the Emperor Undying to come calling. Their leaders want Nona to be the weapon that will save them from the Nine Houses. Nona would prefer to live an ordinary life with the people she loves, with Pyrrha and Camilla and Palamedes, but she also knows that nothing lasts forever.

And each night, Nona dreams of a woman with a skull-painted face...

©2022 Tamryn Muir (P)2022 Recorded Books

A confusing and ultimately unfulfilling third book

First I'd like to say that I love this series, or at least I did. By far my favorite is the first book. It was understandable that the second book introduced a lot of mysteries but at this point I would have liked something resolved. Instead it introduces entirely new characters whose connection to the major plot is unclear until the very end, and even then they don't really have anything to do with the plot. They're just there to see it.

Don't get me wrong, it's well written. It's engaging. But a major part of the plot revolves around a bunch of middle school kids and their teacher on a war-torn planet. The other half of the book is flashbacks exploring the history of how the setting came to be, the major players, the series of events, and so forth. But it all ends up world building and character development takes a back seat.

The timeline is also a jumbled mess. When does this book take place? Is it concurrent with Harrow the 9th? Some parts of it seem to be concurrent and some parts of it seem to be afterwards. Never mind the fact that the ending of the second book seems to have been retconned somewhere along the way. It feels like there should be a book between the second book and this book and it's intensely frustrating.

There are a myriad of new characters, or old characters with new names, and characters that act completely different from what they did in the previous books and there's no explanation for why. Never does the book answer the question of why we should care about the majority of these characters.

I'm not buying the fourth book until someone can tell me that we get some answers about something. It doesn't need to be all the answers, but things just need to be explained and recapped in a way that makes sense.

Best of the three.

What a great read. I’m can’t wait to see how the series ends. This was my favourite of the three so far. The near constant mystery is placated with amazing characters. A unique and captivating story.

The missing piece of her soul

In book one we learned that Harrow didn't have much of a childhood, only one child close to her age around and they hated eachother, in book two we learn that outside of the occupant of the locked tomb she believes she's incapable of feeling love for any living person, this book fills in those voids, Gideon is no longer her only friend, she has family now and she loves everybody who is a part of her life, takes the concept of an inner child to a whole new level, Nona is the innocence that Harrow never got to experience because her parents told her as soon as they were able to what they did to produce a necromancer which destroyed any chance she ever had of a normal upbringing. Nona the Ninth feels necessary for the charachter's overall development and it makes it much easier to empathise with her as something other than an elitist sociopathic killing machine.

I hate that it's done

I loved, loved,loved these books. This one had twists thar kept me involved and engaged til the absolute end. Mad that it ended. Highly recommend this series!

This book and the series is weird

The first book was nice, but they get weirder and hard to follow.
A good editor that cut some of the "atmosphere" and connected some of the story lines would have done it a great service.