Some of her YA readers didn’t like the darker elements in Ninth House, so keep that in mind if you aren’t a fan of that either. Bardugo’s other novels are also pretty dark, but as YA they don’t go too deep into scarring territory. Ninth House is a very dark book and definitely not a YA novel. I’m a little hesitant to recommend this book to lovers of Bardugo as there has been quite a lot of backlash. So if that’s not your cup of tea, beware of boredom. I’ve been reading some reviews to figure out what other people did find boring and what I gather is that they call it a slow read with a lot of narration. But that description doesn’t really do the book justice. The most boring thing I can come up with about Ninth House is that, on the surface, it’s a girl with special powers story. Yale is filled with secret societies that perform actual magic and somehow it is now her job to make sure no one gets hurt. Alex grabs the opportunity to escape her old life but is not prepared for what it will entail. When she wakes up in the hospital someone from Yale is at her bedside, asking her to join a secret society that keeps the other secret societies in check. To escape their glares, Alex turned to drugs, living on the street from a young age and ended up as the only survivor in a mysterious multiple homicide. As long as she can remember, she’s been able to see the dead. “I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.” What is this book about?Īlex is a freshman at Yale, but woefully out of place there.
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