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Gideon the Ninth
- Subgenre
- romantasy
- Edition year
- 2019-09-10
- Rating
- ★ 4.1 · 1507 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
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Gideon the Ninth, the first book in the Locked Tomb series, follows Gideon, a swordswoman raised in the isolated Ninth House of necromancers, who is forced to serve as cavalier to her childhood nemesis Harrowhark, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House. The pair travel to a haunted gothic palace in space to compete in the Emperor's deadly trial of wits and skill, where necromancers and their cavaliers must prove their worth to earn immortal status, navigating cut-throat inter-House politics and the palace's lethal arcane secrets along the way.
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- Forced Proximity: “no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier. Without Gideon’s sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die.” source
- Tournament: “The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill.” source
- Enemies to Lovers: “her childhood nemesis won’t set her free without a service” source
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