Harrow the Ninth
The Locked Tomb • Book 2
by Tamsyn Muir
Narrated by Moira Quirk
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
Tamsyn Muir wrote this entire sequel in second person just to make sure you feel as unhinged as Harrowhark does — and Moira Quirk makes it land.
- Great if you want: unreliable narrators, puzzle-box plots, and lore that rewards obsession
- Listening experience: deliberately disorienting and dense — rewards a second listen
- Narration: Quirk's second-person delivery turns a risky format choice into a feature
- Skip if: you want payoff before book three — this one earns patience, not comfort
About This Audiobook
Harrowhark Nonagesimus has answered the Emperor's call and become a Lyctor — but victory has cost her everything she remembers, and something in the halls of the Emperor's haunted space station suggests that the cost may not be finished. A mind-bending novel that fragments its own timeline, substitutes unreliable third-person narration for its own history, and requires the reader to assemble the truth from deliberately displaced pieces. Tamsyn Muir's Hugo and Locus Award-winning sequel to Gideon the Ninth is a puzzle box that demands and rewards active engagement.
Moira Quirk's narration of Harrow the Ninth is a technical achievement — navigating the novel's shifting tenses, unreliable perspectives, and buried trauma requires extraordinary precision, and Quirk delivers it while sustaining the emotional core of Harrowhark's unraveling. At nearly twenty hours, the production is an immersive commitment to one of contemporary SFF's most formally ambitious works. Essential listening for devotees of the Locked Tomb series.
