I think my favorite reaction to HtN from first-time readers is “omg Harrow is going insane!!!!!”
did you not read the first book. this bitch has been insane since the day she was born. her first appearance in the series was her confronting Gideon after staying up all night to dig up bones and hide them in the floor so she could kick Gideon’s ass for trying to sneak off the planet. when did you think she was being normal. when she stayed awake for days on end obsessively trying to figure out the first trial in Canaan House. how about the time she got so dehydrated and exhausted that she made herself a bone cocoon to sleep in. I could go on