![]() ![]() Soon Alex finds herself in the center of a mystery that involves ancient magic, ghosts, some of the most powerful humans in the United States, and murder. ![]() Instead, she was recruited by a mysterious benefactor who has given her the task of keeping the eight secret societies of Yale in check as they grapple with magic beyond their control. ![]() What can’t she do?Īlex Stern is a freshman at Yale University who was recruited not for her academic skills (she’s a high school dropout), nor for her athletic ability (doesn’t have any), nor for her family’s connections (she lived with her drug dealing boyfriend after her mom kicked her out). That’s right, she set her first adult fiction novel at Yale. While Bardugo is best known for her young adult fantasy novels – which The Cool Table highly recommends – in Ninth House she leaves her Grisha universe behind for the mysterious world of New Haven, Connecticut. Then Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House made me love ghost stories. Maas Publishers Summary The adult debut from the author of Shadow and Bone - now a Netflix Original series The instant Sunday Times and New York Times best seller that Stephen King calls Impossible to put down. Whatever the reason, I never got a taste for ghost stories unless they were written by the Brontë sisters. King of Scars By: Leigh Bardugo A Court of Thorns and Roses By: Sarah J. ![]() The reason for that was probably a combination of my family’s religion, my parent’s general distaste for horror and my tendency to get nightmares. I wasn’t allowed to read the Goosebumps books as a kid. ![]()
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