Just finished Gideon the Ninth, after receiving it over a year and a half ago as a holiday present. I had tried to get into it but couldn't find the time or motivation, and then moving across the country and starting a new job did not help with that.
Finally though, I got into a groove and managed to finish it. And what's more, I really enjoyed it and now I can just immediately go read the sequel.
I got impatient and decided to bump this book up to the front of my list, and I bought it today. It was the last one left in the bookstore, which made me feel both relieved that I went when I did and validated that it's almost sold out from so many people in the area with good taste. Can't wait to read this and then get to read all the spoilered text about it across several Discord servers I'm in once I'm done
Minor spoilers for the prologue below
I was expecting a sequel to start with a bit of establishing background, setting, what had happened in the first book, etc, and just generally easing into the plot via a bunch of exposition. This book instead just went buck wild from the beginning and I'm loving it.
