You also learn to understand the motives of each character and slowly untangle the spiderweb of mysteries and secrets. Though I didn’t have any emotional attachment to any of them (as I would if I found them relatable in any sense), it was interesting to explore the many layers of the main character. The characters, on the other hand, were fun to read about.
But I do want to stress, again, that the story is a lot to digest, and definitely isn’t one that everyone will love. The author’s wit and broodiness in writing goes so well with the occult, gory themes in the book. And of course the, writing was gripping in true Bardugo style. However, it was still interesting to read about the unique magic system and explore the supernatural elements in the book. It’s not bad, but like I said, it all felt very disorienting (and frankly, a little anticlimactic). You fly through 50 pages and then slow down for the next 20. One thing I have to point out is that the pacing of the book does not quite ‘pick up’ as you read. It was all very disorienting, and I often found myself losing track of the plot’s direction. Upon reading the first chapter, this book pretty much thrusts you into an unconventional world with unconventional people doing unconventional things. Here are are my completely unbiased thoughts So I gave Ninth House another shot and read it again from the beginning. After reading 50 more pages, I decided that I needed to re-read the book with a fresh perspective.
But after reading 100+ pages, I accepted that I was not going to get anything remotely close to Six of Crows. I was so looking forward to meeting and getting attached to the characters of Ninth house, just like with Six of Crows. I know it’s horrible to compare both series but I can’t help it. I mean, it’s Leigh Bardugo, author of my babies Six of Crow and Crooked Kingdom. I went into this book with such high expectations. 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.
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