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I will simply never understand people who say they don't like Nona or call the plot of Nona the Ninth uninteresting. I saw someone describe the book as "cold" and I've been turning that over in my head because?? did we read the same book?? Nona is about love and warmth and about finding those things in the coldest of places and knowing that when things are bleak and dark you will always have love to fall back on. Nona is the soul of a misused, abused and ancient planet who was never treated right, even by the people who claimed to love her, but she doesn't know that! she has endless, unlimited capacity for love!

she is perhaps the only character in the entire series who will never experience the horrors of love because her love is pure and uncomplicated and limitless.

Nona is the soul of a planet, and yet she is so human. She is so desperately human, she wants to live and love, and she is terrified of the idea that both could be taken from her. Alecto loves John but Nona loves everyone.

She is the soul of a planet who wanted nothing more than to love and be loved, and now for the first time in her vast and ancient life, she is a six-month-old who loves and is loved by people who didn't even know who she was! they took her in because she was in the body of their friend, and then when she was nona, they loved her for her, without forcing any of their demands or expectations onto her!

And she contrasts so beautifully with Harrow. Nona, who never knew who she was until right at the end, who didn't have access to her memories of those who used and abused and emptied her, is the opposite of Harrow, who is 200 dead children, who has always known she is 200 dead children.

Harrow and Alecto are chained in so many ways -- Harrow metaphorically, and Alecto physically. Harrow's body is the memory of 200 souls, and Alecto's body is a prison for the soul of the entire earth. Neither lives for themselves and neither is free. And yet Nona, who is both of them, is free. She is the love that couldn't be taken away.

And I could talk forever about the importance of the world that Nona exists in, and how crucial it is for the story that we see her friends and what their lives are like, and how important it is that the reader is confronted with the reality and the cost of John's empire. The book places so much emphasis on the value of these regular human lives, directly contrasting the first two books, in which impossibly ancient beings simply do not care about average humans.

Nona is six months old and she cares about everyone, and for the first time in the earth's ancient life, everyone cares about her, and doesn't expect anything in return for it.

God I love Nona so much.

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Ianthe..... just one chance..... pleek

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if a hot undead cougar said that to me I would need a cigarette

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bassist harrow

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long time no see, reverend daughter

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New tlt art! Yep!💀

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www.nonehouseleftgrief.com/careers

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you put the veggies 🧅🥕 in the soup 🍲 and eat them both up 🥄 you put the veggies 🧅🥕 in the soup 🍲, and add the tibia marrow 🦴 you put the veggies 🧅🥕 in the soup 🍲, it makes it taste... bad! 💥💥💥

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how much sorrow can i take / blackbird on my shoulder?

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lyctorhood is easy to achieve. save for the caveat

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Don’t look away.

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1000 days without them..

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Palamedes got the bonus of getting to be one of the girls, gays, and theys by becoming Paul.

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DAY 999

GIVE IT UP FOR DAY 999

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happy alectopause day 999

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happy alectopause day 999!! have some griddlehark skull face painting from chapter 5 of gtn