Tamsyn Muir

Her city is under siege.

The zombies are coming back.

And all Nona wants is a birthday party.

In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona's not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back.

The whole city is falling to pieces. A monstrous blue sphere hangs on the horizon, ready to tear the planet apart. Blood of Eden forces have surrounded the last Cohort facility and wait for the Emperor Undying to come calling. Their leaders want Nona to be the weapon that will save them from the Nine Houses. Nona would prefer to live an ordinary life with the people she loves, with Pyrrha and Camilla and Palamedes, but she also knows that nothing lasts forever.

And each night, Nona dreams of a woman with a skull-painted face...

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Nona the Ninth

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Nona didn't understand how the others could walk around and go through their lives only touching each other as much as was necessary.

"I don't let go," said Camilla. "It's my one thing."

"You're only boobs, hair, and talk, Crown," said the guard.

She wondered again why anything that hurt them only hurt briefly, but that anger took such a long time to go away.

"I'll touch you at the end of the world, but not before."

we were children—playing with the reflections of stars in a pool of water … thinking it was space.”

And a hilariously accurate summary of the entire book.

Liz Griffin

“I know we think they'd have the blue madness, but what we know is that we don't know anything, okay? I want you lot to make that your motto. What we know is that we don't know anything.”

Nona quite liked this motto. It was an accurate summary of her entire life.

fira

"He's going to know, Hect. You're killing each other." 

"Do what you're good at," said Camilla. “Lie." 

"Hect, you're not listening. It's killing him too—" 

"It was good," said Camilla, and her eyes closed. "It was good. We were happy."

stop you can't do this to me give them back 

M— and A— were a united front, and that was scary as fuck. It was always frightening when they stood together.

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