Lethe was formed to serve as supernatural sheriff to the university’s eight secret societies-practitioners of arcane magic. She drifts early into a world of dangerous men, her life on the skids until she makes a devil’s deal: in exchange for a free ride to Yale, she’ll use her ghostly ability to work for Lethe House. Since she was a kid Alex Stern has been able to see ghosts, an awful ability that’s precluded her attempts to lead a normal life. It’s a tale of threadbare survival, a pick-up-the-jagged-pieces story that kicks off long after its hard-baked heroine’s life has already fallen apart. All of that can be found in her adult debut, but Ninth House ticks with a different kind of heartbeat. I adore Leigh Bardugo’s YA books-the shippable characters (I’m a Kanej ride or die), the deeply lived-in worlds, the breakneck audacity of her plotting.
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