📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 Ninth House
AUTHOR: Leigh Bardugo @lbardugo
Publisher: Flatiron Books @flatiron_books
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐢
Published: October 8, 2019
The Review 📚 Ninth House
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- I had previously DNF’d this book and then had to re-read it for a challenge prompt. I am actually glad I did, as the first time I listened to the audiobook. This time I read an e-book copy and enjoyed it a lot more!
💜 What I liked:
- The mystery story is still really intriguing to me. Alex is a strong character with a lot of trauma that chaotically drives her to make the decisions she does. You can’t help but root for her, even if she is very spontaneous.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- This book is VERY descriptive so if you are looking for a quick read, this isn’t it. But stick with it!
🚦 My face at the end: 🙀
💭 5 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Immersive first book ina series
- 2. Deeply damaged main character
- 3. Dark Academia setting
- 4. Fantasy/ Magical realism in this world!
- 5. That ending!
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Galaxy is tapped to oversee the 8 houses of Yale that do magic, but finds herself trying to solve the disappearance of her partner and death of a few women around campus.
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
📘 Summary 📚 Ninth House
Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. 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, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. 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. What’s the catch, and why her?
Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive.