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Different anon who just finished it – the end was deeply satisfying as a conclusion to the read. IMO Muir laid it out well in the lead up (multiple huge hints) so it wasn’t a GOT idiot twist but natural progression of the story/their partnership. Yea i want the sequel now and just preordered but after reading a bunch of youthful fantasy romcoms (like the of fire and stars sequel), this was a really nice palate cleanser. Looking back, the ending is pretty well hinted at in the book summary!

Again, so sorry for the lateness of this reply! I’d like to pretend it was because I was worried about spoilers, but that was like 5% of it, the rest of it was just…you know. Me getting distracted by other things.

Still gonna put the rest under a cut:

I’m glad you liked it but I have to disagree with that, anon! Kind of. I never claimed it was a GOT level ending, but it still didn’t make a lot of sense to me. These endings never do, the whole point is that they’re strongly hinted at, or straight up predicted or prophesied but THEN they get subverted. And GIVEN how many small pieces of Gideon’s unfinished story we had, her mom, the other Gideon, the fact that she wasn’t killed by that one draining technique Harrow used or the poison (was that what killed all the other kids of the Ninth? Whatever that was). there’s clearly a lot left of her story and I imagine we’ll either get Harrow investigating it or Gideon back in some form in the sequel anyway, but in either case, I didn’t love it.

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Hmm, finished Gideon the Ninth! I didn’t mind the ending personally, maybe ’cause I’m still processing right now, though I can definitely understand! But wow, all I can say is that I’m really looking forward to the sequel and Gideon is just so ??

Damn, since you sent this late last night, you must have read nonstop. Glad the ending didn’t send you reeling, BUT! Anon! Were you warned? Instead of being COMPLETELY blindsided? Like one poor innocent reader who had NO IDEA what was about to happen and blithely read the ARC she trusted with her foolish girlish heart? Hmmmmm? 😛

But yes, the need I had for the sequel upon finishing! I don’t even think there’s a date, although, there are titles! Not just for the second, Harrow the Ninth,

which you probably saw at the end of this one, but the third one is called Alecto the Ninth?? What is that?? Who is that?? Did I miss some random mention of some being who’ll become significant? Is it like, a combination of Gideon and Harrow?

Oh, I just checked again on goodreads, Harrow the Ninth, June 2nd 2020. That’s…not that far from now? I had to literally check my desktop calendar to make sure this year was 2019, it feels crazy that the sequel’s coming out in less than a year? I’d expect, if June, of 2021. The second Teixcalaan book will come out 18 months after the first one. But maybe part of the reason it took so long for Gideon to come out was the polishing up of the next one? And it’s almost ready? …assuming the date’s even correct, of course. Heh.

But anyway, I loved Gideon the character, and I absolutely need her to be a major part of the next book.

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you can’t just reblog paris/rory like that with no warning, its one of those ships i always forget about but it suddenly will pop up out of nowhere and emotionally drag me back into the early 2000s. but i love that there are still ppl writing it after so long haha

Heh, awwww, yeah, the fandom’s keeping it afloat! If anything, though, doesn’t it feel stronger now than back then? But maybe I just think that because I didn’t ship it at all back then. I wasn’t aware of it as a ship and wouldn’t even suspect I was gay until after the show finished. And then I read good ole Boston Marriage and was like…you know whattt. 

You have read The Best of It, right? Just in case the early ‘00s really were your last time with them, I don’t want you to continue living without it in your life