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How Does 'Harrow The Ninth' Connect To 'Gideon The Ninth'?

Finishing Gideon, I'm struggling to follow the shift in Harrow's narrative perspective and the whole unreliable narrator thing—help unpacking the tonal and timeline changes?
2025-07-01 16:17:00
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kyliieeer
kyliieeer
'Gideon the Ninth' is a direct sequel to Harrow the Ninth, which picked up where the first book left off and followed the bruised psyche of Harrow through the rest of the story. As a layered sequel to Gideon the Ninth, it recontextualized much of what had been read in that first book and established further mysteries of the Locked Tomb. I see a similar mechanism at work in ongoing series like The Last Blackthorne Heir Returns. At its heart, The Last Blackthorne Heir Returns is a continued exploration of the premise of the first book, a disgraced heir returning to his home after many years, and, as with that story, it slowly and methodically reveals the underlying political conspiracy that brought about the downfall of his family, piece by piece, through changing loyalties and surprising revelations of past actions.
2026-07-18
Cadence
Cadence
Harrow the Ninth is a wound left by a sword, the sequel to Gideon the Ninth picking up where that explosive novel left off. Rather than follow Gideon around for a while (although he is here in a significant way) this is largely told from Harrow’s point of view. Harrow is a damaged, fractured, sometimes desperate person and nearly everything that hurts her and drives her connects back to Gideon. The Emperor is up to his usual machinations in this one, the necromantic puzzles are presented in increasingly abstract, even dreamlike fashion. Shared DNA with Gideon the Ninth is plenty: the same very Gothic, very science fiction/fantasy, very much a love letter to possibly the worst school in the galaxy of a book, but this one is mostly feelings, and punches them in a far, far messier and more intimate way. Most importantly for Gideon fans: the book rewards that so intensely for, in addition to its deepest, most injured characters, it also includes so much more about the detailed, compelling world and characters that the first book describes.
2025-07-03
Violet
Violet
After finishing Gideon the Ninth, I immediately picked up Harrow the Ninth by the same author. The book continues the story of our heroes, but this time from the perspective of Harrow. As usual, her perspective is somewhat unreliable, so it’s not a given how things are going to play out. The absence of Gideon is felt by Harrow and the reader alike, but the two books otherwise share a similar dark and weird humor and a number of necromantic aspects. Unlike Gideon the Ninth, however, Harrow the Ninth is not focused on fighting and action, but on following the Emperor’s numerous lies and trying to understand what really happened. As a sequel, Harrow the Ninth is a surprising but seamless continuation and mixing up of the themes of the first book.
2025-07-04
Grayson
Grayson
'Necromancers are several steps down from emperors. That’s the basic premise of Harrow the Ninth, the deeply odd and sort of sunny sequel to Gideon the Ninth. Harrow the Ninth is, basically, Gideon’s shadow — darker and much weirder. While the first book is largely concerned with Gideon, Harrow the Ninth is all about Harrow and her unbearable, exhausting, sharp-edged grief for Gideon. And yes, the Emperor’s secrets are revealed, and yes, the necromancy is trippier in Harrow. Harrow the Ninth is the second half of a gothic, bone-filled epic at its heart — and it’s deep, brilliant and sort of unsettling as all get out. It twisted and turned on its own weird head, often in deeply surprising ways, and in doing so became, as far as I’m concerned, just about as perfect a sequel as one could imagine.
2025-07-05
Elijah
Elijah
'Gideon the Ninth' is a prequel to ‘Harrow the Ninth’ and while both books follow the same characters, through different storylines, ‘Harrow’ takes a completely different approach to the Harrow/Gideon relationship than ‘Gideon the Ninth’ did. Instead of focusing on action-packed battles to the death, ‘Harrow the Ninth’ follows a character who is descending further and further into the depths of her own soul. With the Emperor still keeping many secrets buried, the dark and gothic necromantic world is explored further and the dark humor remains as Harrow descends into her own personal hell – following her own darkest demons, her unknown past, and even more unknown future – searching for the truth of what is real and what is just a product of her own fractured mind.

Gideon’s presence still resonates throughout the book, often driving Harrow to make decisions and even push Harrow to find a new sense of self. Fans of the first book will be able to recognize parts of it throughout the story — the same lyrical writing, the same motifs of bones and death, even the same quirky dialogue that makes Timony roll his eyes. However, the two books are not the same, ‘Harrow the Ninth’ is a twisted mirror image of ‘Gideon the Ninth’ and instead looks at the same themes in a new and interesting way. The two books are basically halves of a whole and explore the sad, tragic, beautiful love and tragic destiny of Harrow and Gideon in a deeply brutal but wonderful way.
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