Gideon the Ninth is the best Locked Tomb book. It’s wildly entertaining with a really cool setting and engaging haunted house mystery plot. And best of all, it has the best protagonist: an immensely charismatic swaggering butch lesbian sword fighter who just gives no fucks
Harrow the Ninth is the best Locked Tomb book. It’s challenging and rewarding with fascinating character dynamics, incredibly cool structural storytelling and deeply philosophical themes. And best of all, it has the best protagonist, a fiercely determined, immensely powerful necromancer, who is also an incredibly traumatized useless lesbian who can’t deal with the fact that she loves women more than God, who she works with
Nona the Ninth is the best Locked Tomb book. It’s a deeply compelling exploration of the effects of war and colonization on the people who it hurts the most, with humanist themes and queer found family dynamics. And best of all, it has the best protagonist, an endlessly optimistic, childlike but never infantalized girl who can’t do anything but love every single person that she meets even in the middle of a war zone and also she’s friends with a six legged dog