The hardest thing about reading Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth is that it’s going to be a long wait until next summer when the next book comes out. Gideon Nav has spent her life as the servant of the cult of death known as the Ninth House; locked in battle of body and mind with […]
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