Gideon the Ninth

What a disappointment! I really thought I'd like this queer necromancers in space murder mystery, but was disappointed on all counts of that description. Yes, the main characters were queer, there were an abundance of necromancers, it took place in another solar system, and there's a lot of killing. But the world building and prose were weak, there are way too many characters (over twenty), and a protracted, forty page showdown in the end. I was bored through most of it and ended up skimming much of it. I can't believe this book was nominated for a Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award, and won the Locus First Novel Award. This is the first book in a long time that I seriously wanted to abandon.

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