Bardugo.Bestselling YA author (and Yale alum) Bardugo’s first adult novel follows Galaxy “Alex” Stern, a survivor who has won a place at Yale because of her ability to see ghosts. I was cheering her on the whole way: from the first brilliant sentence of this book to the last. 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. 'Leigh Bardugo's Ninth House rocked my world. Leigh Bardugo has written a book so delicious, so twisty, and so immersive I wouldn't blame you for taking the day off to finish it.' - Kelly Link, author of Magic for Beginners and Get in Trouble. There's so much magic here that you'll begin to feel it seeping into the room around you as you read, and characters so real you 'll practically hear their voices in your ear. ' Ninth House is the best thing I've read in a long time.

Bardugo's imaginative reach is brilliant, and this story―full of shocks and twists―is impossible to put down.' - Stephen King ' Ninth House is the best fantasy novel I've read in years, because it's about real people. 'Fantasy readers, particularly those who love ghosts, will hungrily devour this novel.' - Publishers Weekly (starred review) 'With an aura of both enchantment and authenticity, Bardugo's compulsively readable novel leaves a portal ajar for equally dazzling sequels.' - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Leigh Bardugo will take her place alongside Lev Grossman and Deborah Harkness as one of the finest practitioners of literary fantasy writing today. Ninth House is the long-awaited adult debut by the beloved author of Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows. But their occult activities are more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. Their eight windowless 'tombs' are the well-known haunts of the rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street's biggest players. Still searching for answers, 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 prestigious universities on a full ride. Some might say she's thrown her life away. In fact, by age twenty, 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. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo comes a mesmerizing tale of power, privilege, and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite.

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