It's true

Surprisingly accurate, Nona.

Is this book good? I really liked the first one, but the second one was a mess. Read it a year ago and I cant even remember what it was about. They were visiting some planet for something, there was an emperor or something and harrow was trying to kill him I think. Dont remember how it ended. Who is this nona supposed to be?
- Harrow is deliberately confusing until you get to the end. That is unfortunately a hard sell but I loved it. Makes way more sense on a second read. Nona has similar levels of confusing but it isn't as opaque nor does it jump around.
- I liked all three, but the first is my favorite. (More Gideon plz.) Nona's identity is the big mystery of the third book. It's all on the Locked Tomb wiki if you want major spoilers.
- I spent my whole commute going over how much I liked these books, and then saw this post.
  Harrow is a book about a person going through serious trauma without healthy coping mechanisms. Muir immerses you into that headspace (I'd say effectively).
  It's confusing! But it's also a very true continuation of Gideon the Ninth, just as Nona goes on to do.
  But the payoff is worth it, from a reader's perspective. I'd recommend you reread Gideon and Harrow before attempting Nona.
  And then we can all wait together for Alecto.
- I loved the first one. I liked 7/8th of the second one. It was a tricky puzzle, trying to figure out what is real and what isn't, and what's truly going on. But I trusted the author because of how much I liked the first one.
  Then the ending of the book was terrible and made me angry at the entire second book as a result.
  But I read the third anyway, just in case. I didn't much care for it. It was okay enough to keep reading. But it was very different in tone from the first two, for plot reasons. I dunno, maybe 6 out of 10?
  I know I have to read the 4th for sunk cost reasons, but I'm not excited about it...
Bone wisdom from the bone mage.
I’d be a little weary if they want to be my friend lol

To lie in the firm dark rock, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

The Buried does have a certain allure, doesn't it?

Crushed by tons of dirt for millenia, until your very substance is replaced with local minerals.

Get buried in a swamp.

Ha, that sounds like an insult. Like something you'd say to someone that's along the lines of things like 'fuck off,' 'go play in traffic,' or 'take a long walk off a short pier.'
"Get buried in a swamp, cretin!"
- Haha, true. But I think being buried in swamp actually sounds cool

Furiously takes note

That or you get wrecked by some random drilling operation.

What if my bones were in a museum Where aliens paid good money to see ‘em And suppose that they put me together all wrong Sticking bones onto bones where they didn’t belong!

Imagine phalanges, pelvis, and spine Welded to mandibles that once had been mine! With each misassemblage, the error compounded The aliens would draw back in terror, astounded!

Their textbooks would show me in grim illustration The most hideous thing ever seen in creation! The museum would commission a model in plaster Of ME, to be called ‘Evolution’s Disaster’!

And paleontologists there would debate Dozens of theories to help postulate How mankind survived for those thousands of years With teeth-covered arms growing out of his ears!

Oh, I hope that I’m never in such a manner displayed, No matter HOW much to see me the aliens paid.

~Bill Watterson, The Indispensable Calvin & Hobbes

I am now generating fossil-tulpa

I don't want to get burnt