Gideon the Ninth

lesbian necromancers in spaa~ace!

i really wanted to love this book but had no idea what was happening much of the time. i think my experience was hampered by reading it in ebook form - i couldn't easily flip back to reference the cast list....so i such a hard time keeping track of character names and houses. the way characters would refer to each other fluctuated wildly between first names, last names, house names, nicknames - it was so confusing!

gideon was hilarious and there were a few moments were i guffawed aloud at the book. the writing had a tendency to go from super descriptive and dense to suddenly slangy and colloquial lol, in a way that sometimes gave me whiplash.

i'm glad i finished the book but given that i've heard the second book is even more confusing, i'm going to stop here. maybe i'll come back some day, when the trilogy has finished - and then i'll reread this book again to see if i can make better sense of it.