Loved itIt fits together really well. And the second one has like a lot of like the world building and the lore and like the wider universe.
Harrow the Ninth (2020)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive "She answered the Emperor's call. She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend. In victory, her world has turned to ash. After rocking the cosmos with her deathly debut, Tamsyn Muir continues the story of the penumbral Ninth House in Harrow the Ninth, a mind-twisting puzzle box of mystery, murder, magic, and mayhem. Nothing is as it seems in the halls of the Emperor, and the fate of the galaxy rests on one woman's shoulders. Harrowhark Nonagesimus, last necromancer of the Ninth House, has been drafted by her Emperor to fight an unwinnable war. Side-by-side with a detested rival, Harrow must perfect her skills and become an angel of undeath ― but her health is failing, her sword makes her nauseous, and even her mind is threatening to betray her. Sealed in the gothic gloom of the Emperor's Mithraeum with three unfriendly teachers, hunted by the mad ghost of a murdered planet, Harrow must confront two unwelcome questions: is somebody trying to kill her? And if they succeeded, would the universe be better off?"
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- 9781250313218
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- 512 pages
Genres: fantasy, science fiction
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Loved itbook two is a deeply emotional introspective look on Grief it also has one of the most confusing narrative structures I've read in a while but I loved it
Mixedi will say harold the ninth was one of the weirdest books i think i've read in my whole life i only gave it three stars for that reason because it's a complicated book it doesn't make any sense it's very long it was just like a very difficult reading experience for me
Loved itthis book especially we have an unreliable narrator someone who is having possibly hallucinations and things like just their grip on reality is not quite stable and there's some stuff happening and you don't really know what and then the payoff is really good