#luimnigh

ngl i could absolutely imagine cinder getting a bionic arm and then just. filing the fingertips herself into claws.

So they don’t have to be explicitly colors, just color related? That does broaden the range of possible names at least

And I didn’t know Ren and Nora are named after flowers, that’s really sweet!

Gideon is a VERY difficult book to rec because like.

What genre is it? Yes.

The answer to that question is “yes”.

Tragedy? Comedy? Fantasy? Sci-fi? Court intrigue? Locked-room murder mystery? Straight-up horror? Spyjinks? Apotheosis? Scapegoat vs Golden Child emotional abuse victims slowly learning to see one another as human beings romance? Paranoid investigation plotline? Enemies to friends to [spoiler]? High-level extended-cast political-religious conspiracy? Memes? “Yeah, kind of, but not entirely.’

Gideon is the himbo jock we deserve who’s too busy being a lesbian and thinking about swords to notice that she should be dead already and understands roughly 5% of anything happening at any given time. Harrowhark is precisely two hundred and one debilitating traumas stuffed into a trenchcoat. It’s hilarious except for the parts where it will fucking break you on a molecular level; I opened with “tragedy” for a reason. The narrative tone is irreverent and comedic but the story itself gets dark as shit. Take the “necromancers” part of “necromancers in space” seriously, the descriptions of necromantic magic and how it’s performed are pretty unflinching. You will end up respecting characters you still hate.

There’s a pool scene.