Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
von Leigh Bardugo
"The best fantasy novel I’ve read in years, because it’s about real people... Impossible to put down." ―Stephen KingThe smash New York Times bestseller from Leigh Bardugo, a mesmerizing tale of power, privilege, and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite.Goodreads Choice Award WinnerLocus FinalistGalaxy “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. In fact, by age twenty, 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 prestigious universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her?Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. Their eight windowless “tombs” are the well-known haunts of the rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street’s biggest players. But their occult activities are more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. They tamper with forbidden magic. They raise the dead. And, sometimes, they prey on the living.Don't miss the highly-anticipated sequel, Hell Bent.
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Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
von Leigh Bardugo
"The best fantasy novel I’ve read in years, because it’s about real people... Impossible to put down." ―Stephen KingThe smash New York Times bestseller from Leigh Bardugo, a mesmerizing tale of power, privilege, and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite.Goodreads Choice Award WinnerLocus FinalistGalaxy “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. In fact, by age twenty, 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 prestigious universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her?Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. Their eight windowless “tombs” are the well-known haunts of the rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street’s biggest players. But their occult activities are more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. They tamper with forbidden magic. They raise the dead. And, sometimes, they prey on the living.Don't miss the highly-anticipated sequel, Hell Bent.
Aktuelle Rezensionen(13)
Ich glaub es könnte gut sein, wenn man denn irgendwas verstehen würde. Das was ich verstanden habe war mir zu düster.
I will always be obsessed with it
3,75
Started out as a 4 ⭐️ read and ended as a weak 3 ⭐️ read. Leigh Bardugo always manages to seemingly kill off the most interesting characters in her books. Got boring towards the end and Alex is not enough of a interesting character to be in the spotlight the whole time.
Have I read better books? Yes,I have. Do I like this better than Bardugo's YA stuff? YES. I loved Alex, I loved Darlington. I loved Dawes and I loved Turner. I rarely love all the characters in a book, even more so, the rather annoying ones, so this was a very pleasant surprise. The ending, I have to admit, made little sense and there are plot holes along the way, so if it is important to you to have a cohesive story that makes total sense, even when magic is involved, this book may not be for you. I loved the world building, I was in need of some good Dark Academia. I got exactly what I signed up for and I am coming from a series of books with insane pacing issues and I flew through this one. 4/5 stars.