Nona the Ninth

by Tamsyn Muir

In the third book in what is now the Locked Tomb series—originally a trilogy, until the character of Nona emerged and busted out into her own book—Nona lives with her friends Camilla, Palamedes, and Pyrrha in a cramped apartment in a tall building in a city menaced by a great hulking creature in the sky. Nona tries to remember her dreams, tries (and mostly fails) to eat food, and tries very hard to be a good friend to a girl named Hot Sauce and a six-legged dog called Noodle. If the second book in the series works to deconstruct the first, the third serves to bring the pieces together, albeit not in the same order they were in in the first place. Muir’s skill at breaking your heart in the tiniest moments is unmatched here, as is her infuriating ability (and obvious joy) in trolling her readers. I am counting down the days until the next (last?) book.

Publisher
Tor
Year
2022
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Fiction
The canon
Series
Locked Tomb Series
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Selected essays

Writing essays & notes

  1. The open universe

    On The Language of the Night and The Real World of Technology

  2. Umyazu

    Reading is the art of attention.

Reading books

  1. Was

    by Geoff Ryman

  2. Kraken

    by China Miéville

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