PositiveAncillary Review of BooksOnce again pulls the rug out from beneath our feet, taking the kind of unexpected risks we’ve come to expect from the series in order to tell a very different kind of story—at least initially ... Nona the Ninth’s greatest strength lies in its willingness to attempt to tell a story that has accrued cosmic consequences on an entirely smaller scale ... Muir is not a careless writer: she offers her theological discourses, painstakingly precise anatomical terminology, and timely meme references with a warmth and sincerity not always present in post-apocalyptic fiction ... I finished Nona the Ninth feeling uncertain as to whether what we had gained with our all-too-brief acquaintance with Nona justified her loss, however inevitable.
