If you were forced into loving them, it wouldn’t be love.” Nobody has the right to tell you who to love or who not to love, and equally nobody’s obliged to you love you. I could never stop you from loving anything. If Gideon is an action adventure and Harrow is a study in grief, then Nona is a treatise on love. As disparate as these three are, it is relationships and identity that are the common threads that weaves through these books. Nona is another abrupt turn in a different direction from the previous two. Gideon and Harrow feel disjointed as books in a series because of the sharp difference in the type of story and format they are being told in. Having just read Harrow was beneficial because I had a decent grasp on who everyone was.
We learn how he gathered together the people who were to become his adepts and cavaliers, and then Lyctors. Earth was in crisis and while John was trying to save humanity he discovered necromancy.
Interspersed throughout the book are chapters of John Gaius narrating his backstory to someone who is dreaming. And a resurrection beast is looming over the planet driving necromancers mad.
There are still some Cohort holdouts under siege in the barracks. Multiple Blood of Eden factions are controlling different parts of the city. Nona’s life is pretty simple go to school, come home, do errands. However, they are quite careful to not lead her in either direction wanting nature to take it’s course. Nona’s caregivers have her play with bones and swing around a sword to see if anything sparks. In that time she has gone from embarrassingly dependent to mostly independent with no memories of her life before or who she is. As far as Nona is concerned, she is six months old. She’s innocent and full of love for the people around her, all the dogs, and even the dangerous, crappy city crammed with refugees she is living in. Nona is unlike any character previously introduced in the Locked Tomb series. Having everything fresh in my mind was helpful because once again Muir throws the reader into the deep end of the pool, expecting one to keep afloat until things gel together. I am so glad to have made the decision to throw my reading plans out the window and reread Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth before reading Nona the Ninth. CBR14 Bingo: “Question” – Figuring out Nona’s identity is a core element of the book.
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