Book Review: Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars
First off, can I just say that Bardugo hit it out of the park with her first adult novel?
I have a weakness for school stories. And if the school happens to be magical in some way, so much the better. But very rarely have I come across a book that involves a school imbued with magic where only a select few students are aware of the supernatural element. I’ve read books were there were secretly vampires or werewolves on campus, not not sanctioned magical societies that had to fly under the collegiate radar. The fact that said magical society were on the campus of a real university, Yale, made things even more interesting. These slight variations made for a fresh take on a favorite trope.
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