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Lauren Fortgang
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Michael David Axtell
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Leigh Bardugo
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'Impossible to put down' STEPHEN KING
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR BEST FANTASY OF 2019
AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF OCTOBER 2019
A 2020 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST
IN DEVELOPMENT FOR TELEVISION WITH AMAZON STUDIOS
BY THE BESTSELLING CREATOR OF THE GRISHAVERSE
AND THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES SHADOW AND BONE
STEP INTO THE WORLD OF NINTH HOUSE
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Galaxy 'Alex' Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. A dropout and the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved crime, Alex was hoping for a fresh start. But a free ride to one of the world's most prestigious universities was bound to come with a catch.
Alex has been tasked with monitoring the mysterious activities of Yale's secret societies - well-known haunts of the rich and powerful. Now there's a dead girl on campus and Alex seems to be the only person who won't accept the neat answer the police and campus administration have come up with for her murder.
Because Alex knows the secret societies are far more sinister and extraordinary than anyone ever imagined. They tamper with forbidden magic. They raise the dead. And sometimes they prey on the living . . .
'One of the best fantasy novels I've read in years' LEV GROSSMAN
'Ninth House rocked my world' JOE HILL
'I wouldn't blame you for taking the day off to finish it' KELLY LINK
'Mesmerising' CHARLAINE HARRIS
'Compulsively readable' KIRKUS
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'The fantasy novel of the year' THE I
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A dark, twisty thriller that doesn't disappoint
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Fully developed story
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I loved this book so much!
my favourite quote is still one from Darlington "There is probably a metaphor in all this Stern...I'll figure it out when I'm sober."
I loved every second and the narrors were amazing!!
This book destroyed me!
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beautifully written and read
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Other things I failed to connect with were the police as the good guys (fantasy indeed) and the attempt to critique the unbelievable privilege inherent to most of the people and surroundings. Much like the flat effect of straight people writing LGBT relationships, Bardugo is writing about her own privileged background, and she seems to think that to contrast with it one must be a drug addict of unclear ethnicity and paternity from the slums. And use the word Town a few times.
Along the same lines, there is a well dressed Black cop but everyone else is white, all of them straight. This lack of diversity is much like Bardugo's early work, which is what led her to create the weird hybrid TV series, so that might have been something she learned to do better? The MC has a Ladino speaking Jewish grandmother, but an Ashkenazi last name, and no personal connection to this ethnicity. Much is made of the fact that she might look a little Mexican if she over-tans, but that is about as diverse as it gets, and all invested into the one character who is an outsider anyway, so while it is an interesting aspect of the character it doesn't really make the story very diverse.
Finally, I pretty much saw the ending coming from miles away. Not the particulars, but definitely the whodunit.
I did like the MC, whom Bardugo calls "thorny" in the bonus interview, which again, only shows what a soft background she herself is from. I found her smart and tough and liked her sense of humor. I also liked the representation of friendship between women.
The pacing was good, and the big reveal at the end was pretty original however some of the imagery used was pretty unoriginal including for example the banquet, which seen through a mirror all the participants are old and falling apart and eating rotten food or something like that. It's been done a lot, and there are several elements like that throughout.
Nitpicks: I might have just missed where this was clarified, but the MC seems to have been 15 years old during the events leading up to her coming to Yale as a freshman (and not 15). The male narrator couldn't say New Haven correctly, and while Fortgang is a talented narrator, her accents were terrible, and she probably should have just skipped them.
Three and a half stars, rounded down.
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Interesting, gripping and fast paced
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4.5 Stars
I'm am going to borrow a phrase from John Green "There is something to recommend a story that ends" and say "There is something to recommend a story that starts at the beginning" especially when there's a magic system you don't know, all these characters you don't know and you basically have no clue what's going on!'
“What do you want?" Belbalm had asked her. Safety, comfort, to feel unafraid. I want to live to grow old, Alex thought as she pulled the curtains closed. I want to sit on my porch and drink foul-smelling tea and yell at passersby. I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.”
In this book we meet Alex Stern, who really has no business being at Yale, since she didn't graduate highschool, but she has this gift- or curse - where she can see ghosts, and she is made a deal that she can't refuse - a free ride at Yale, a chance for a normal life, if she helps to police the secret societies, and makes sure that they don't use their magic for ill gains - and then, a dead girl turns up, and nobody seems to bothered about solving the case.
This about jumps around between autumn, where we see Alex acclimating at Yale and her new responsibilities, and meeting her guide, but pretty soon in, we see something go terribly wrong. And you see the fall-out from that in the Winter chapters.
There's just so much going on in this book, it kept me wrong-footed constantly, and kept my interest rapt.
Alex isn't a very likable character maybe, but this book is such an ode to surviving and getting the job done, by whatever means necessary, I actually loved her by the end. It's also about privilege,m and about the kind of people that get away with things, and the kind that don't
I think it's a very universal feeling to want to carve out your own little section of the world, of life where people just let you be, and accept you, as you are, and this book spoke to that feeling so much for me
I really liked the friendship that blossomed in this book, and I also liked our other POV character Darlington,
The way the magic was handled and described was also very cool to me. I just really loved this book. Though, this won't be the book for everyone, if you can't take gore. Not for you. If you can't handle the main character's fuck you- attitude, Not for you. If you can't handle involved stories with a large emphasis on magic, not for you!
I think the only real critism I have is that we could have been eased into the story more gently
I think the individual narrators were great picks who fit their POV character very well
One of my faves of the year
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The plot moves along very well and there are some surprising twists i thought were very effective. The supernatural elements and the murder mystery aspects worked very well together. Narration is very good.
I'd highly recommend this book and am eagerly awaiting the next in the series.
Wow, what a good book!
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there’s one specific thing in this book that kinda ruins it for me, I won’t spoil it. but I’m not entirely sure if it’s a poorly written part or if it’s just that I didn’t catch it bc I was distracted
both are plausible
(and it might be unfair of me as it also affects my rating? but they could’ve just brought it up again when it turned out to be such a huge part 🤠although basically meaningless it turns out idk🤠 of the plot)
and all in all it felt rushed
Disappointed
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Not My genre
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