Gideon the Ninth _ GUSH

**Sam’s Spoilery Gush for *The Ninth* by Tamsen Muir**

Hey guys, it's Sam, and this is my spoilery gush for *Getting in the Ninth* by Tamsen Muir. As I said in the video, this review will contain spoilers, so if you haven't read the book yet, I’ll link my spoiler-free review on the screen.

To be honest, my experience reading this book was completely unexpected. Last year, I had to stop reading it because of my panic and anxiety flares, which were exacerbated by the necromancy and possession elements in the story. Back then, I just couldn’t handle it—I had to put it down. But now, with better medication and a clearer mind, I managed to finish it this time around. While some parts at the end, like the intense battle scenes, were still overwhelming for me, overall, I loved the book. It was such a wild, fun ride.

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### The Setting: Gothic Mansion with Creepy Experiments

One of the things I absolutely adored about *The Ninth* is the setting—a gothic mansion filled with creepy experiments in the basement. It had just the right balance of eerie and intriguing without crossing into being too disturbing. The world-building was fantastic, especially how every house has its own unique power or ability. I loved diving into this dark, mysterious universe where necromancy and political intrigue collide.

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### Character Breakdown: Gideon and Harrow

Let’s dive into the characters because, spoiler alert, there are a lot of them! The book starts with a list of characters at the front, which was super helpful for keeping track of everyone. My favorite character by far is Gideon. I loved how she was adored by so many people across different houses—there were even moments where others flirted with her or showed interest in her. Her dynamic with Harrow was particularly interesting—it was a slow-burn, slow-developing thing between them, and I really enjoyed watching their relationship evolve. They had this unlikely friendship and ally vibe that felt authentic and compelling.

But then, at the end, when Gideon dies—oh my god! I was completely blindsided. When she killed herself to strengthen Harrow, I was like, “Oh my God, what just happened?” And then, it turns out she’s absorbed into Harrow’s mind… so can she come back? Do I want her to? Honestly, I’m not sure. That twist left me conflicted because, while the book as a whole was amazing, I’m now unsure if I want to continue with the series knowing that Gideon is stuck in Harrow’s brain. It’s something I need to think about before diving into the next book.

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### Other Characters: Heroes, Villains, and Twists

Harrow herself was another character I really enjoyed. She’s small but spunky, ambitious, and cunning—everything I love in a character. Despite her rough start with Gideon, their dynamic grew in such an interesting way. I loved how they went from unlikely allies to something more… well, you’ll have to read the book to find out!

Then there’s Ianthe—I’m not sure if that’s her name correctly. She was one of the bad guys who turned into a Lecter, absorbing Nebus or whatever. The moment at the end of her chapter when the twins messed up and she said, “I should have taken them,” gave me chills! It was so creepy and unexpected.

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### The Teens from the Fourth House

The fourth house had these two obnoxious teen characters who I absolutely hated at first. But when they died horribly, I felt so bad for them—it wasn’t their fault that Hero (Harrow) pulled them into her political play. They were just caught in the crossfire, and it broke my heart when Jean-Marie died right when Gideon was sleeping. It made me realize how dangerous this whole situation was.

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### Magnus, Palomides, and Camilla

The fifth house had these characters involved in the first set of murders, but there wasn’t much to say about them beyond that. Moving on to the sixth house—my favorites! Palomides and Camilla were amazing. I loved Palomides’ nerdiness and his bond with Camilla. There was even a hint of a love triangle where Camilla seemed to be in love with him, but he was more interested in the seventh house. I just adored both of them—Palomides’ smarts and Camilla’s fighting style made them stand out.

But then, Palomides died, and it devastated me. The fact that he sacrificed himself to take down Cytheria, the first house woman, was so heroic, but I wish he could have gotten his revenge before dying. It left me feeling cheated because he didn’t get the closure I wanted for him.

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### The Seventh House: Dulcinea and Persi

The seventh house had a major twist at the end—Persi turned out to be a zombie the whole time, and Dulcinea was actually the Lecter controlling him. It was such a fascinating twist! Despite her being almost dead the whole book, Gideon was drawn to her in a way that made their dynamic really interesting.

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### The Eighth House: Silas and His Problems

Finally, there’s the eighth house—Silas and his crew. I didn’t like them at all. Silas was such a douchebag who caused so many problems throughout the story. But then, at the end, he got what he deserved when Column stood up to him and things went down in a messy way. It was satisfying to see him get taken down, even if it was under such tragic circumstances.

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### The Battle at the End: Intense but Overwhelming

The final battle scenes were intense and left me feeling both exhilarated and exhausted. Watching all the Lecters and other powers clash at the end was thrilling, but it was also a lot to take in. The grand necromancer or whatever his title was—just saying “come help” at the end after Gideon’s death and absorption left me speechless. I just didn’t know how to feel about that.

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### Final Thoughts: Should I Continue?

Overall, *The Ninth* was an incredible ride—I loved the mystery, the characters, and the world-building. But now, with the next book being so different, I’m not sure if I want to continue. Some people have told me it’s mixed in terms of quality, so I need to think carefully about whether this series should stand on its own or if I’m willing to dive deeper into the chaos.

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Thank you all for watching! If you’ve read *The Ninth* and want to share your thoughts without spoiling anything, let me know. Until next time, bye!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys it's sam and this is my spoilery gush for getting in the ninth by tamsen muir as i said this video will have spoilers in it so if you have not read this book i will link my spoiler free review on the screen so this like i said my review was so unexpected because i had to stop reading this book last year because of my panic and anxiety that i was having last year and this book having like the necromancy and stuff wasn't super bad for me last year like it was kind of getting there and then some of the possession stuff started happening with harrow and gideon like being able to do that and i was like i can't but right now properly medicated i'm fine with it but like back then middle of a flare i could not deal with that so i had to put it down but i was able to get through that totally fine this time and there was things at the end like some of the imagery at the end when everyone was fighting was like a little bit much for me just was like a lot more because of like the intensity of it but otherwise this book was fine and i was i was totally okay with it and it was a wild ride a very fun ride so i want to kind of go into more of the like character stuff in this gush and kind of talk about all of them because i really liked a lot of the characters here i like the setting like i mentioned my view i like the setting i like the gothic mansion um with all like the really creepy experiments in the basement like that was all really cool and like creepy but like not too creepy and the necromancy and like the world building and how every house has a different power is really cool and i loved all of that stuff so as far as our cast of characters and i love that we have a list in the front that i can talk about so gideon and harrow like i talked about in my review of it i loved gideon um and i'll just cut to the chase with like the giddy and stuff so i love gideon i love that like everyone really loved gideon like there was a lot of people that like would like kind of flirt with gideon and stuff between like the various houses like the seventh and the third and stuff like and then her and harrow having like a thing like their developing thing was so good like the kind of slow burn that i really enjoy slow burn that's like are they are they developing like a love thing it's sort of like unlikely friends and allies i love like guard and royal which is kind of what they are in this scenario dynamics really enjoyed that and then at the end when gideon dot like when gideon like kills herself i'm just like oh my god to strengthen the harrow oh but then she's like it'll still be like in her brain like she like hair like absorbed her like so can she come back can she come back um i don't know and that's what has me if you watch my review you'll see that like i'm not sure if i want to continue not because i'm mad that gideon died or whatever but i'm just like i don't know if i want to read more now that like that's not a thing and i don't really necessarily want to read it with like gideon stuck in her brain either you know like i'm not sure i like that direction but it was fun like this book as a whole was fine great i really loved it but like i don't know how i feel about that so if you read more of the series without giving spoilers and want to tell me like hey what you think but i've heard some mixed things with the second book so i'm not sure about my choice to continue or not but i liked her and i like harrow i like harrow as a character because hero is that like small but spunky like like ambitious cunning and i love those characters like i say like with like love i'm like you are a and i love you so yeah i really actually kind of enjoy her even though her and like gideon like she's awful to get in before but like their dynamic as it grows i enjoyed i don't really have much to say about the second beyond them kind of acting like cops the whole time and being really obnoxious the third interesting the whole dynamic where you figure out like who actually has power um ianthe is i'm not sure if that's how you say her name being like one of the bad guys becoming a lecter absorbing nebus or whatever and then the the creepy like that moment at the end of that chapter when the twins like she should have taken me oh my god messed up the fourth house with the teens the horrible teens who would have thought that those two little obnoxious brats would have been people that you would feel affection for like when they died horribly horribly i was like oh my god and then gideon felt so bad and like they didn't even have to die because i shouldn't have even gone down there because it was all hero like trying to do like a political play poor kids for a while i thought they were the ones that were doing something but like the fact that they died like then like jean marie died like right when gideon was like sleeping messed up the fifth house the first set of murders obviously not much to say about them but like kind of oh magnus you know like he dies and even gideon was like he was nice to me oh the sixth house aka my favorites palometes and camilla loved them and that's another reason why i'm like he's dead i don't i don't want it i loved him like i loved him i loved his like nerdiness and him and camilla's bond and i was like was there sort of like a love triangle it was camilla kind of in love with him but he was in love with the seventh house but like i just i just love him and like i love that he's super smart and sort of in this competition but he also seems to respect everybody else and like he was like i'll work with you harold like stop being like a brat you know like i just really enjoyed him and i love her i love her fighting style camilla i love like her as a guard like everything about them i adore to the fact that like there well camilla's still around right she made it but the fact that he's gone like really devastates me and the fact that like he didn't really get to kill her the the woman that was um the first house woman or whatever see cytheria um the fact that he didn't really get to kill her makes me sad because i'm like you sacrificed yourself for like what um i mean i guess he did some damage that like mattered later but i'm like no then as far as the seventh house yeah dulcinea and pro persilius or whatever that whole twist was so interesting the fact that like he was just like a zombie the whole time and that she wasn't her like she was she was gone but like again gideon was like into her like the sixth house was into her like but she was but she was like a like almost dead girl like the whole time but she was actually like the lecter that whole thing was messed up but like so interesting and then the eighth house i hate them um i did like column a little bit towards the end when he was being like you know he stood up to like silas and stuff but silas was a douche he caused a lot of problems and then like at the end it just was like shitty like what went down with them you know like column and like the way he died and silas and whatever um but like silas kind of deserved that because he was a dick but yeah that's them so then at the very end like all the stuff that was happening with the battles there i just was like this is really intense like the lecters and like all of that and then like you know the the first house guy what's his name even like the grand necromancer or whatever the emperor um just being like yeah uh come help at like the end after you know like gideon's dead and absorbed and all of that i'm just like i don't know i don't know if i want to go down this path so let me know your thoughts but those are all of my like thoughts for the most part i'm trying to think of like some other little like scenes and stuff like i said all the tests were really cool and like just the whole mystery and all that stuff was really cool um but yes having the next book be something like totally different i don't know if i'd be as into it so definitely let me know your thoughts without giving me spoilers but if i should continue with the series or just leave this as it's like own standalone thing so thank you all for watching and i'll see you guys soon bye youhey guys it's sam and this is my spoilery gush for getting in the ninth by tamsen muir as i said this video will have spoilers in it so if you have not read this book i will link my spoiler free review on the screen so this like i said my review was so unexpected because i had to stop reading this book last year because of my panic and anxiety that i was having last year and this book having like the necromancy and stuff wasn't super bad for me last year like it was kind of getting there and then some of the possession stuff started happening with harrow and gideon like being able to do that and i was like i can't but right now properly medicated i'm fine with it but like back then middle of a flare i could not deal with that so i had to put it down but i was able to get through that totally fine this time and there was things at the end like some of the imagery at the end when everyone was fighting was like a little bit much for me just was like a lot more because of like the intensity of it but otherwise this book was fine and i was i was totally okay with it and it was a wild ride a very fun ride so i want to kind of go into more of the like character stuff in this gush and kind of talk about all of them because i really liked a lot of the characters here i like the setting like i mentioned my view i like the setting i like the gothic mansion um with all like the really creepy experiments in the basement like that was all really cool and like creepy but like not too creepy and the necromancy and like the world building and how every house has a different power is really cool and i loved all of that stuff so as far as our cast of characters and i love that we have a list in the front that i can talk about so gideon and harrow like i talked about in my review of it i loved gideon um and i'll just cut to the chase with like the giddy and stuff so i love gideon i love that like everyone really loved gideon like there was a lot of people that like would like kind of flirt with gideon and stuff between like the various houses like the seventh and the third and stuff like and then her and harrow having like a thing like their developing thing was so good like the kind of slow burn that i really enjoy slow burn that's like are they are they developing like a love thing it's sort of like unlikely friends and allies i love like guard and royal which is kind of what they are in this scenario dynamics really enjoyed that and then at the end when gideon dot like when gideon like kills herself i'm just like oh my god to strengthen the harrow oh but then she's like it'll still be like in her brain like she like hair like absorbed her like so can she come back can she come back um i don't know and that's what has me if you watch my review you'll see that like i'm not sure if i want to continue not because i'm mad that gideon died or whatever but i'm just like i don't know if i want to read more now that like that's not a thing and i don't really necessarily want to read it with like gideon stuck in her brain either you know like i'm not sure i like that direction but it was fun like this book as a whole was fine great i really loved it but like i don't know how i feel about that so if you read more of the series without giving spoilers and want to tell me like hey what you think but i've heard some mixed things with the second book so i'm not sure about my choice to continue or not but i liked her and i like harrow i like harrow as a character because hero is that like small but spunky like like ambitious cunning and i love those characters like i say like with like love i'm like you are a and i love you so yeah i really actually kind of enjoy her even though her and like gideon like she's awful to get in before but like their dynamic as it grows i enjoyed i don't really have much to say about the second beyond them kind of acting like cops the whole time and being really obnoxious the third interesting the whole dynamic where you figure out like who actually has power um ianthe is i'm not sure if that's how you say her name being like one of the bad guys becoming a lecter absorbing nebus or whatever and then the the creepy like that moment at the end of that chapter when the twins like she should have taken me oh my god messed up the fourth house with the teens the horrible teens who would have thought that those two little obnoxious brats would have been people that you would feel affection for like when they died horribly horribly i was like oh my god and then gideon felt so bad and like they didn't even have to die because i shouldn't have even gone down there because it was all hero like trying to do like a political play poor kids for a while i thought they were the ones that were doing something but like the fact that they died like then like jean marie died like right when gideon was like sleeping messed up the fifth house the first set of murders obviously not much to say about them but like kind of oh magnus you know like he dies and even gideon was like he was nice to me oh the sixth house aka my favorites palometes and camilla loved them and that's another reason why i'm like he's dead i don't i don't want it i loved him like i loved him i loved his like nerdiness and him and camilla's bond and i was like was there sort of like a love triangle it was camilla kind of in love with him but he was in love with the seventh house but like i just i just love him and like i love that he's super smart and sort of in this competition but he also seems to respect everybody else and like he was like i'll work with you harold like stop being like a brat you know like i just really enjoyed him and i love her i love her fighting style camilla i love like her as a guard like everything about them i adore to the fact that like there well camilla's still around right she made it but the fact that he's gone like really devastates me and the fact that like he didn't really get to kill her the the woman that was um the first house woman or whatever see cytheria um the fact that he didn't really get to kill her makes me sad because i'm like you sacrificed yourself for like what um i mean i guess he did some damage that like mattered later but i'm like no then as far as the seventh house yeah dulcinea and pro persilius or whatever that whole twist was so interesting the fact that like he was just like a zombie the whole time and that she wasn't her like she was she was gone but like again gideon was like into her like the sixth house was into her like but she was but she was like a like almost dead girl like the whole time but she was actually like the lecter that whole thing was messed up but like so interesting and then the eighth house i hate them um i did like column a little bit towards the end when he was being like you know he stood up to like silas and stuff but silas was a douche he caused a lot of problems and then like at the end it just was like shitty like what went down with them you know like column and like the way he died and silas and whatever um but like silas kind of deserved that because he was a dick but yeah that's them so then at the very end like all the stuff that was happening with the battles there i just was like this is really intense like the lecters and like all of that and then like you know the the first house guy what's his name even like the grand necromancer or whatever the emperor um just being like yeah uh come help at like the end after you know like gideon's dead and absorbed and all of that i'm just like i don't know i don't know if i want to go down this path so let me know your thoughts but those are all of my like thoughts for the most part i'm trying to think of like some other little like scenes and stuff like i said all the tests were really cool and like just the whole mystery and all that stuff was really cool um but yes having the next book be something like totally different i don't know if i'd be as into it so definitely let me know your thoughts without giving me spoilers but if i should continue with the series or just leave this as it's like own standalone thing so thank you all for watching and i'll see you guys soon bye you\n"