Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1) | Leigh Bardugo
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
review
Gryffleclaw95
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image
Pickpick

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Ninth House” is full of dark and gothic academia vibes. It was slow to start, but the plot and story itself gradually became more suspenseful with several plot twists. I enjoyed Alex‘s character arc, and I also enjoyed the murder mystery element that was included. I‘m not sure when I‘ll read the sequel, but I‘m intrigued to see what happens next.

16 likes1 stack add
blurb
HiMyNames_Alyssa
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image

I read Ninth House back in 2020 as my first book for my personal "read more" challenge and it honestly pole vaulted me back into a love of books I hadn't felt in years. But I rented it from the library. I'm so happy I've finally added it to my personal collection along with the second book recently released. I can't wait to re-read Ninth House and then continue the story with Hell Bent ❤️

blurb
BookwormAHN
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image
Gissy Liked that book. I need to read the sequel. 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🖤📚😱 1mo
Eggs 🖤✨💙 1mo
35 likes3 comments
review
451Degrees
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image
Pickpick

This was a thrilling but tough read. The subject matter ended up much heavier and darker than I anticipated😅 Alex is pulled from her drug hazed life in LA and becomes the Dante of Lethe one of the secret societies of Yale due to her ability to see the dead. Afier the disappearance of her mentor and a sudden homicide, Alex finds herself investigating occurances than the other houses want to keep covered up and will do anything to keep it that way

blurb
CurvyCrochetGirl
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image

Week one and two points! #scarathlon #batbrigade

Catsandbooks Hooray! 🎉🦇🙌🏼🧡 2mo
Texreader Whoohoo!! 2mo
Deblovestoread Yay! 🦇 2mo
16 likes3 comments
blurb
Uralkodo
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image

23 likes1 stack add
review
Gissy
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image
Pickpick

At the beginning of this story members of my book club and myself were confused. There are two time lines present and past where the past happened a couple of months before. A dark academia with fantasy elements. Alex didn‘t finished HS, was using drugs with other problematic situations but one day while she was in the hospital, the Dean offered her to enter to Yale University. But, why? Does she have a special skill? ⬇️

Gissy (Cont.) She will be part of a secret society and things start to happen😳 I thought the story was predictable and I guessed that part but then those last chapters were twists after twists that I didn‘t see coming. Leigh has this excellent way to develop “villains” unlikable characters that you just love. The ending was so good that motivates you to continue with the sequel immediately, but I have to wait until next month😩⬇️ 2mo
Gissy (Cont.) There is n interesting interview with the author at the end of the audiobook. Leigh Bardugo studied in that university and with the exception of one place the other places are real, of course magic was not real😜😂But she explained why she created the Alex in the way she is, there is some criticism to those elite groups. Fantastic. This book worked for me🤗4⭐️
September #BookSpinBingo (#1 #TheForgottenBookClub) @TheAromaOfBooks
2mo
See All 8 Comments
DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 2mo
TheSpineView I agree with you on the beginning. Great job! 2mo
Andrew65 Brilliant 👏👏👏 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! 2mo
TheBookDream Love love loooooove these books 2mo
43 likes8 comments
blurb
Emilymdxn
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image

And for the #scarathlonphotochallenge today we have one of the best books with a black cover I‘ve read recently! The fabulously spooky and dark academic Ninth House. I‘ll read any dark academia kind of book and this was wonderful, exactly what I was after

#skeletoncrew @Clwojick @StayCurious

Clwojick Loved this one, but I bailed on the 2nd in the series. Did you read Hell Bent? 2mo
Emilymdxn @Clwojick I did like it. 2mo
44 likes2 comments
review
kissmehardy
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image
Pickpick

Dear GOD I forgot just how much the action ramps up at the end of this book! Alex is the best type of character - unconventional with a strong sense of justice and an ability to roll with the uncanny. I also have a soft spot for Darlington, because who doesn't? #reread #urbanfantasy #darkacademia

20 likes1 stack add
review
IndoorDame
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image
Pickpick

I had to jump into spooky season a few days early with the audio of Ninth House. I love dark academia, and this is one of the best examples of the genre I‘ve seen! There are one or two good surprises buried in this, but it mostly shines in how perfectly it evokes New England college life, blends it with the occult, and lets you live there for a few hours, getting swept up in a world where you‘re 20 again and magic is real.

Chrissyreadit I will listen to this this month!!! 2mo
Emilymdxn I agree this book is so good! I‘ve been deep in the dark academic books the last month or so. Have you read vita nostra? One of my other absolute faves I‘ve read recently 2mo
IndoorDame @Emilymdxn not yet but it‘s on my TBR! 2mo
See All 8 Comments
IndoorDame @Chrissyreadit oooh, enjoy!!!! 2mo
Gissy I just finished this one and loved it. At the beginning I confessed I said to myself it was okay but then things got more complicated. I want to read book 2. I love dark academia too. I need to post my review too. 🤗🍁🍂 2mo
IndoorDame @Gissy I want to read book 2 also! I have it on Libby right now, but I‘m excited about sooo many things this month I don‘t know if I‘ll get to it now 2mo
Emilymdxn The sequel is so good I really liked it! 2mo
Gissy @IndoorDame Same here🙋🏽‍♀️October is for spooky/fall reading📚🍁🍂 2mo
56 likes1 stack add8 comments
blurb
DinoMom
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image

Thanks @Blerdgal_Fenix I got that great package you sent. Everything is lovely! I love the tote bag!!!!! Can‘t wait to start these books.

@Bookgoil @Deblovestoread

Blerdgal_Fenix I am so happy it made it there 🖤 2mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Awesome package 🧡🧡 2mo
Bookgoil So cute!!!!! Love the tote too! 2mo
Deblovestoread Fun package! 2mo
47 likes4 comments
review
booklover3258
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image
Pickpick

My review of this book can be found on my YouTube Vlog at:

https://youtu.be/EpWTVq21TVU

Enjoy!

review
Emilymdxn
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image
Pickpick

I always always love dark academia and this had incredible concepts, world building and ideas. The concept of magic secret societies doing necromancy at Yale is just so delicious, so obviously I adored it.

I will say the plot was complicated and I don‘t think being told out of order helped it. I‘d have preferred a chronological beginning to end version of the story being honest.

ShyBookOwl How was Nightmare Movies?? 3mo
Emilymdxn @shybookowl Really good! I recommend it (edited) 3mo
50 likes2 comments
blurb
ChelseaM6010
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image

#BookBinge
Day 27. Dark Academia
#DarkAcademia

Eggs 🖤🤍🩶 3mo
14 likes1 comment
review
The.Great.Catsby
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image
Panpan

I know this is an unpopular opinion. It was just a no from me. Maybe there was too much to keep up with? Or that I didn't really like any of the characters? Maybe it just wasn't the right genre for me. It was long and did not engage me. Also, it was kind of gross at times.
⭐️

08.24.2023

review
LitStephanie
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image
Pickpick

It took me awhile to get into this, mostly because I did not like the tactic of starting it post-disaster and then going back in time to explain everything. But I kept reading, and the writing was much better about 1/5 in. It's a reimagined modern day Yale where magic and ghosts exist, and magic societies of rich, often ruthless, students and alumni hold enormous power. The Ninth House tries to keep them from abusing it. Dark, gory, scary fantasy.

quote
Kitta
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo

“Alex didn‘t really know what she had missed, only that she was homesick for something, maybe for someone, she‘d never been.”

Oof. I know this feeling too well.

15 likes1 stack add
review
suvata
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image
Pickpick

#StoryGraph: dark-academia secret-societies • 5 Stars

This is a contemporary occult fantasy. The story is set in a macabre version of the real world and focuses on the occult culture fostered by a set of Yale secret societies, which seek power and wealth through death-related magic. The novel follows unlikely Yale University freshman 20-year-old Galaxy “Alex” Stern, a high school drop out and homicide survivor who can see ghosts, called “grays”.

review
Kris10H
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image
Pickpick

Book #59
4.5/5
Not my typical read, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Bardugo's supernatural world, based on the history of Yale/Newhaven, is complex, as is the storyline she built from it. Great read for anyone who enjoys dark fantasy/thriller/mystery/supernatural fiction.

blurb
Kitta
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo

In a real reading slump for months now and only halfway through this. I picked it up again this week and read a few pages though!

Really hope I‘m coming out of this, I‘m 10 books behind on my goodreads challenge and haven‘t got a BOTM in months because I have so many books.

Any advice for someone struggling with a reading slump?

wildwoodreads I'm just getting out of a reading slump. Give yourself time. It will get better. And here are a few other tips that helped me.
https://wildwoodreads.com/2022/06/10/how-to-beat-a-reading-slump/
6mo
Itchyfeetreader I had a terrible COVID related reading slump. I missed reading but couldn‘t quite manage it. I did a couple of things… 1) decided to not worry about any of the challenges I had planned for the year 2) reread some favourites 3) unashamedly read some young adult and middle school stories that sparked my memory of loving reading. Hope you find your spark 6mo
ReadingOver50 Try a novella, something a little shorter 6mo
See All 6 Comments
Kitta @ReadingOver50 I just got a new novella so I‘ll give that a try! 6mo
Kitta Thanks @wildwoodreads I considered DNFing this one but everyone seems to love it so I‘m trying to persevere. It‘s getting better now! 6mo
Kitta @Itchyfeetreader thanks for the advice! I think I‘m going to have to adjust my goodreads challenge to make it manageable this year. I just got a new novella I want to read so maybe tackling that, something short and done in one sitting, will inspire me to read more. 6mo
20 likes6 comments
review
Karons1
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image
Pickpick

Well I loved that one , Nearly gave up in the first 100 pages but it‘s a Bardugo so didn‘t and am I glad I didn‘t . Iv sat up very late nodding off with this is my lap as Iv been so engrossed. I‘m now pleased I‘m late to the party and can rush out to get hell bent book no 2 no wonder the fans were going bonkers waiting to see what happened ! This one has surely got to the a tv series !!!

Karisa Oooh, it would be great to see it all come to life ton the screen! I wonder who could play Alex? https://www.tor.com/2023/02/21/leigh-bardugo-shares-ninth-house-tv-adaptation-ha... 6mo
Karons1 Oohh @Karisa thanks for this Il take a peek 🫣 x. X x 6mo
LitStephanie I struggled with the first section, too, but also persevered and loved it. 4mo
28 likes3 comments
review
LazyLibrary
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image
Pickpick

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I started this book soooo many times. Almost swore it off. Not for me. But I tried one more time, & finally it stuck. Slow burn!!! Page 114 is when I became officially invested. It's a mysterious story and intriguing and I've already added book 2 to my BOTM box!

review
Sharv_Sona
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image
Pickpick

I finished this book ages ago. But I procrastinated against writing a review… which is not good for me but here I am. Anywho, this book — albeit traumatising — is brilliant. Are there scenes which are horrifying? Yes. Are there scenes which are so vividly described you get goosebumps? Yes. How do I feel about this? I love you, Leigh Bardugo. Seriously though, it never hurts to have a bit more trauma, especially not when it‘s well written.

5⭐️!

quote
Sharv_Sona
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
This post contains spoilers
show me
post image

quote
Sharv_Sona
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image

quote
Sharv_Sona
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo

I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.

quote
Sharv_Sona
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo

Not every flower belongs in every garden.

quote
Sharv_Sona
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo

Maybe good things were the same as bad things. Sometimes you just had to let them happen.

quote
Sharv_Sona
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image

quote
Sharv_Sona
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo

“I want… normal”
If you ever find it, let me know.

quote
Sharv_Sona
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo

“This is a terrible idea,” he said.
“The only kind I have.”

quote
Sharv_Sona
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image

quote
Sharv_Sona
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo

I let you die. To save myself. I let you die.
That is the danger in keeping company with survivors.

quote
Sharv_Sona
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo

He ended as he had always suspected he would, alone in the dark.

quote
Sharv_Sona
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo

Magic had almost killed him, but in the end it had saved him. Just like in the stories.

quote
Sharv_Sona
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo

Whether you made a deal with the living or the dead, best not come up short.

quote
Sharv_Sona
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo

Rather die than doubt

quote
Sharv_Sona
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo

There are worse things than death.

quote
Sharv_Sona
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo

Beggars can‘t be choosers.

quote
Sharv_Sona
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image

quote
Sharv_Sona
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo

Love is a shared delusion.

quote
Sharv_Sona
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo

I didn‘t say it was fair, Stern. Not much is.

quote
Sharv_Sona
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image

currentlyreadinginCO Love this! (& Ninth House) 7mo
8 likes1 comment
quote
Sharv_Sona
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo

Because magic was never good or kind.

quote
Sharv_Sona
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo

The broken monarch flapped it‘s one able wing.

blurb
amyrohn
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image

It‘s finally the time of year to sip an iced coffee and read in the park!!

blurb
amyrohn
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
post image

Giving this one a reread since my library hold for Hell Bent is almost ready!

quote
Sharv_Sona
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo

If you‘re going to hell together, murder seemed like a good place to start.

quote
Sharv_Sona
Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo

It is only through mystery and madness that the heart is revealed.