I dove into this book very nervous about if I would really like it. I’m not much into fantasy novels, but I really loved Harry Potter. When I saw Stephen King reviewed this book and said, “It’s like Harry Potter for adults,” I thought I’d give it a try…
….and I’m SO GLAD I did!
This is a fantastic book that does make you long to re-read Harry’s story. I really loved the fact that there’s a murder mystery tied into the adventure. It was slow reading at first, while I was getting my bearings within the story’s world, but once I was fully invested in the story I couldn’t stop turning pages. The descriptions of the settings and characters are so well done. I won’t spoil this review with plot points, but there’s a drowning scene that made me literally gasp for breath. I adore being so invested in a story that I’m feeling it for myself. Quite amazing!
If you love Harry Potter, you’ll like this one, too!
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Back Cover Copy of Ninth House:
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.
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