![]() ![]() But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. NINTH HOUSE By Leigh Bardugo When a writer sets a fantasy novel in our dusty old real world, the general approach is: Everything cruddy just like it is now, except, also magic The intrusion of. 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. 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. ![]() 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. With a bruised heart and bleeding knuckles, she risks death and damnation - again and again - for the people she cares about. I could not get enough of sinewy, ghost-haunted Alex Stern, a heroine for the ages. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. 'Leigh Bardugos Ninth House rocked my world. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. ![]() 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. Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. ![]()
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