I try so hard to love Leigh Bardugo's books like everyone else, but something about the writing confuses me and I struggle to like the characters. Bardugo's New Haven is plausible and frightening, and I was one rapt reader.' (Charlaine Harris, best-selling author of the True Blood series) 'In this mesmerizing novel, Leigh Bardugo introduces us to Alex, a high-school dropout who gets a free ride to Yale because of a unique talent. This book is brilliant, funny, raw and utterly magnificent - it's a portal to a world you’ll never want to leave.' (Lev Grossman, New York Times best-selling author of The Magicians) ' Ninth House is one of the best fantasy novels I’ve read in years. 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. Leigh Bardugo will take her place alongside Lev Grossman and Deborah Harkness as one of the finest practitioners of literary fantasy writing today.Ī Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books 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 20, 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. This program includes a bonus conversation with the author. A win-win-win, honestly.' ( Paste, best audiobooks of 2019)įrom number one New York Times best-selling author Leigh Bardugo comes a mesmerizing tale of power, privilege, and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite. 'Bardugo’s latest is a must-listen, introducing a haunting, Yale-based occult world populated with gloriously complicated characters.

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo