Now, don’t get it twisted, triggers are INCREDIBLY important. The list of triggers of the book became public late summer/early fall and made readers question if they wanted to approach the book. This book has had probably the most controversy this year, and for good reason. The mesmerizing adult debut from #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo.ĬW/TW: Drug use, overdosing, murder, death, loss of a loved one, gore, PTSD depiction, grief depiction, self-harm, bloodletting, rape/sexual assault (including rape of a minor ), talk of suicide, physical abuse, a magical date rape drug, forced consumption of human waste (feces), and racism. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. Still searching for answers to this herself, 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 elite universities on a full ride. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. By age twenty, in fact, 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. Leigh Bardugo will take her place alongside Lev Grossman and Deborah Harkness as one of the finest practitioners of literary fantasy writing today.Add to Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | Book Depository Synopsis

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.

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