Reading Wednesday: Harrow the Ninth by Tamsin Muir

I have mixed feelings about the much anticipated sequel to Gideon the Ninth. In some ways it's a very clever piece of writing (a great deal of it in the second person), and it's both gritty enough and ironically humorous enough not to come across as too full of its own cleverness. But it suffers very much from a huge lack of Gideon Nav.

You can think about that last statement some more later.

I'm going to cut this because it's really impossible to discuss Harrow without some monster spoilers for Gideon.

( Cut for spoilers for the first book )

When I finished this, I thought I would not want to read it all over again very soon. But now, having told you about it, I think I do.