Ninth House
Readers rate it 4.0 (1.2K on Hardcover)
413 pages · Released Oct 8, 2019 · Flatiron Books
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Ninth House is a dark adult fantasy novel centered on a trauma survivor navigating Yale's occult underbelly. It contains graphic violence (including the aftermath of a multiple homicide), frequent profanity, sexual content, and heavy themes of trauma and abuse. While the protagonist shows resilience and the story explores complex character growth, the book is explicitly marketed to and written for adult readers, not young teens.
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"The best fantasy novel I’ve read in years, because it’s about real people... Impossible to put down." —Stephen King Enter a mesmerizing world of power, privilege, and dark magic among the Ivy League elite in the first book in the Alex Stern series. Goodreads Choice Award Winner Locus Finalist Galaxy “Alex” Stern is th... "The best fantasy novel I’ve read in years, because it’s about real people... Impossible to put down." —Stephen King Enter a mesmerizing world of power, privilege, and dark magic among the Ivy League elite in the first book in the Alex Stern series. Goodreads Choice Award Winner Locus Finalist 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. 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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- Fiction
- A mix driven
- Strong Character Development
- Diverse Characters
- Loveable Characters
- Unloveable Characters
- Not Diverse Characters
- Weak Character Development
- Plot driven
- Character driven
- fast-paced
- dark
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ISBN 9781250313089 · Flatiron Books