Ninth House - BookWyrm

mass market paperback, 608 pages

English language

Published June 28, 2021 by Flatiron Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-250-79800-8

(2 reviews)

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 …

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.

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Kibrika reviewed Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (Alex Stern, #1)

Review of 'Ninth House' on 'Goodreads'

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Best ghost story I've ever read. Probably because it's not a ghost story in the classical sense of the word, but a modern book with all the necessary hook and payoff to make it a great read. But it's also a ghost story.
What I love about it is that people seem brutally realistic. People with power act like people with power. People who want to do better are flawed people who try and sometimes do a bit better. People with problems get into more problems. For the most part. But there's a bit of power and rightness fantasy in it too, to not make it completely bleak.
Really, really solid read (or listen).

Bel-Chion

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Sep 10