Bill CONNELL

What made Harrow the Ninth stand out to me was the author’s uncanny ability to immerse the reader in Harrow’s fractured perception of reality. Harrow is a character marked by profound trauma, and her grip on the world around her has clearly unraveled. But what elevates this story is that the reality she does experience is itself unstable—slippery, contradictory, and hauntingly surreal. This compounds her struggle to understand others’ motives and navigate her world. It’s a brilliant and genuinely unsettling exploration of PTSD spiraling into psychosis.