Aerith and Bob: Nona takes place outside the Empire for the first time in the series, in addition to featuring Blood of Eden in a major capacity and several characters referred to primarily by nicknames.

20 Minutes into the Future: The John chapters take place at a nebulous point somewhere in the 21st century global population has increased to 10 billion, humanity has invented FTL and is working to colonize the solar system, and some of the political alliances have shifted, but from the facility John and his colleagues worked at, and later acolytes, the world is largely recognizable to audiences in 2022.

Really, her biggest problem is the woman with the skull-painted face that she dreams of every night.

She likes the city, with its many cultures, and she's only had two tantrums in her life, so that's good, right? Doesn't she deserve a reward? Maybe. She just wants to continue her life as it is, with her friends, with her family. Nona really doesn't see what everyone is worried about. Everybody says that the city has been infiltrated by zombies, or that it's okay if they get conquered because it's still better than what they have. Everybody says that the sphere will kill them all, or the Emperor Undying will return to save his necromancers and kill them all. Bothered about the giant blue sphere hanging in the sky, bothered about the necromancer forces trapped in one last facility. All she really wants is to take long walks on the beach, to continue living with Pyrrha and Camilla and Palamedes.Įverybody around her seems really bothered, though. She's fine with her life as it is, with her friends and family, with school and six-legged dogs. Nona isn't too worried about any of that, though.

Eventually, Nona is going to remember which of them she is, and then they will get on with their life without her. It belongs to someone else, either a sword-wielding cavalier or a necromancer bone adept. Originally planned to be just the first act of Alecto the Ninth, Nona was split off into its own book as it grew out of control, turning the planned trilogy into a series. Nona The Ninth is the third book in The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir. WARNING: Late Arrival Spoilers for prior books in the series.

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