I'm done gideon the ninth and i have so many thoughts this is going to be borderline nonsensical + in no real order so have fun + i will misspell all the names so have fun
as for why these thoughts weren't liveblogged: I had three hours of driving today (hour and half there and back) (sports is hell) and I use my computer for tumblr
i had heard the pool scene was good but omfg?????????????
I don't know enough about anatomy for this. I had to google where the frontal sinuses were located in the middle of gideon kissing harrow
so so so glad i was reading this as an ebook because the dictionary feature was me best friend there were so many words i didn't know. as someone who uses big words too much according to my friends
the writing was just so good? like how do you blend gideon's stupid lesbian thoughts about every woman she meets and random comments about how harrows ass is flat with some genuinely stunning descriptions???? It shouldn't be possible
love some of the smaller details of the worldbuilding, how ninth soap is made of human fat, gideon + harrow's sunglasses and veil since they aren't used to this level of sunlight, it's all just adding a lot to the story idk
as someone who willingly read, enjoyed, and purchased with my own money, a book about tuberculosis, I think i'd be remissed to not mention the parallels between the older view of consumption/tb as a disease of poets and beautiful wasting away and Dulcinea's illness, I think that's a really interesting thing that I don't really see explored a lot and i really liked it :)
Speaking of dulcinea i would like to adress these posts that i made in the height of ignorance:
Yeah so i don't love dulcinea anymore. she was amazing but also she's directly responsible for literally everyones death so. Highly ironic that i (even if jokingly) said that she'd be the next victim of her own damn monster. I'm sure all of you who reblogged that post with ominous smiles are happy
which naturally brings us to the new character tier list:
I love palamedes guys i've said it fifty times we have one guy who knows science and i love him for it. it's kinda just him and harrow (+ ianthe obv) actually actively succeeding at the trials and he isn't made of war crime so that's more impressive on his part
pal, harrow, gideon, and cam's dynamic as a group is so precious to me. Pal and Harrow just talking about fancy necromancy stuff, cam occasionally adding useful input, gideon occasionally adding unhelpful sex jokes. Pal and harrow kinda hate each other kinda respect each other don't want to work together but are working together, pal and gidon are fighting over the same woman, pal and cam are a really good necro/cav pairing, harrow and gidon are a really bad necro/cav pairing and a really good necro/cav pairing simultaneously, it's all beautiful
GRIDDLEHAWK. SO GOOD. I DON'T HAVE WORDS.
the children!!!! Gideon always described them as "teens" so i assumed they were like 16 or something but jfc 13 and 14 are literal infants in the lyctor trials and of course their only real parental figures had to die three seconds and they're left with the disfunctional polycule of doom who immediately get them killed (Harrow.)
speaking of death, wtf basically everyone died. I'm assuming a few of them won't stay that way, both gideon/cam have no body, pal's only got a piece supposedly and i wouldn't put anything past him, it seems kinda weird to get all these great characters and kill them off in book one of the trilogy (also cam and pal aren't nearly as codependent as you guys are saying so i'm assuming they come back or yall are severely overstating it)
I can't think of anything else off the top of my head, I'll probably post some of my comments while reading (yes i'm stealing your idea @runasulienadanika) later on + make some of these thoughts more codified and into their own posts + new thoughts so yeah! Really good, you were all right.
+ bonus for once maja wasn't making ominous comments this time!
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