![]() Have you read this book? What do you think of Leigh Bardugo in general? Should I also read Six of Crows and the Shadow and Bone books? Leigh Bardugo Ninth House readers imbibing peril Cloud Cuckoo LandĪn orphaned seamstress and a cursed boy with love for animals risk everything on opposite sides of a city wall to protect the people they love.Īn impoverished, idealistic kid seeks revenge on a world crumbling around him. ![]() I can’t wait for the rest of the books in this series. It took a couple of false starts for me to get into the story. The book is slow in places, but it’s wonderfully atmospheric, so I can’t call it a flaw. He doesn’t even appear in the book, but he is still fantastic. ♥ Darlington (Alex’s mentor) is such a great secondary character. ♥ The heroine shows character development without turning into a completely different person. Even if they only appear briefly in the story, I remember them. The book is then a roller coaster ride – combining a journey into Alex’s incredibly traumatic past, the murder mystery, and Yale’s alternate history with magic. ![]() Seriously, this section gave me goosebumps! And then bam! There is a murder, and only Alex seems to have the grit and heart to investigate. We are immediately dropped into Alex’s daily life at Yale, where in between classes, she attends the creepiest magical ritual I have read. I loved it! It lives up to its promise of dark academia and combines a solid murder mystery with interesting paranormal aspects. I am so glad I took a chance on this book. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. ![]() These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s most prominent players. Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven and is tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most elite universities on a full ride. ![]() Some might say she’s thrown her life away. By age twenty, she is the sole survivor of horrific, unsolved multiple homicides. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much worse. Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. ![]()
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