Two of them I definitely should have noticed. I missed that! I feel like a character being a planet should have been something I noticed. I only just found out, in conversation with her before coming in here and writing this, that not one but two of the characters are apparently planets. Blue thing in the sky? What blue thing in the sky? No, the back cover copy on this book describes several different events in the book and I don’t remember any of them.

No, I do not remember that character, who was apparently mentioned six hundred and thirty times in book two. My wife loves these books unreservedly I keep asking her questions and she begins to answer them with “Well, do you remember when …” and my answer is invariably no. Some characters may - or may not, no one is clear– be in more than one body. By the end of this book, there are so many characters who are not in their own bodies that I feel like I need a fucking spreadsheet to understand what is going on. If I had read the book, I would have understood more of it. I am functionally incapable of reviewing this series any longer, and I can only barely apply the verb “read” to the process my brain was attempting while my eyes were roving over the words on the page. You might notice that the word “review” does not appear in the title of this post.

This one, Nona the Ninth, only happened because apparently Nona’s story got a bit out of Muir’s control and she had to make it its own book early printings of Harrow actually say that Alecto will be the next book, an error that I don’t know if they corrected in later versions. That will apparently be the final volume. There will be a fourth, supposedly this year, called Alecto the Ninth. I have read and reviewed the first two books in Tamsyn Muir’s Locked Tomb series, Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth.

The locked tomb alecto