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Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

Leigh Bardugo

Start date: January 1, 2020

Finish date: March 31, 2020

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Jun 06, 2020 Leslie Ray rated it liked it

When I first heard about this book I thought maybe it would be a combination of maybe Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and The Secret History. I was unpleasantly surprised. I could not connect to the protagonist, Galaxy 'Alex' Stern as portrayed in the title as #1 of a forthcoming series. She was not a character I could really get interested in and ended up not really caring what happened to her. She was "invited" to Yale due to her ability to see "grays" or better known as ghosts of the de ...more

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Aug 13, 2020 Fred Rayworth rated it liked it

I picked up Ninth House because the premise sounded interesting and of course, after careful examination, I found that it was written in solid third-person, past-tense. If not, I never would’ve even picked it up.

On the other hand, what I failed to detect right off was the solid pages of words, with the long paragraphs and almost no dialogue. What did I discover? Lots and lots of seemingly endless backstory, lots of jumping around, and a bunch of literary characterization. In other words, the nar ...more

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