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A noua casă by Leigh Bardugo

1274 reviews

fidgetyknitter's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This is a really good book. Sometimes it dragged alittle bit, but not enough to put me off the book or the series. I really like that Alex is a very complicated "hero". She isn't good, but she's not necessarily bad. The book does end on a cliff hanger, but the primary story is resolved in a way I didn't completely see coming.

Spoilers

The Dean killed Tara because he wanted to create a nexus of power so that the St. Elmo group could build a new tomb/house. But the Dean wasn't correct on how to create a nexus. It wasn't the murder of a woman. It was actually the English professor who was eating the souls of women like Alex who could see ghosts. The professor was actually the body of the Bridegroom's finance's (Daisy) handmaid. And she consumed the souls to give her long life. The Dean did try to kill Darlington by having him eaten by a hell hound. But Darlington was probably turned into a demon and the next book is when Alex and Dawes try to save him. And I think he became a demon because he probably killed his grandfather. Yeah. Convoluted but I think it worked.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Sexual assault

hsvensrud's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Really really enjoyed this! Excited to read the sequel. One point that did irk me though was the references to white cotton gloves being used in handling rare books and materials. That’s false! No longer are they typically used because they dampen the dexterity of the fingers and can cause more damage to materials than clean hands can. Anywho, that’s just my one irk cause I work with rare books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

caroline_hotz's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Sexual assault

evelynnreading's review against another edition

2.25

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Was extremely boring💀 The last 100 pages were good tho

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder

itspanicszn's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Rape, Violence, Blood

mealexc's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A book you won’t want to put down. The plots and twist of this book were wonderfully unpredictable. At first it was to follow the time change in between chapters but it comes to a cohesive ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Grief, Toxic friendship

fakeppy's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Alcohol, Classism

Minor: Cursing

bwwilhelm's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use

Minor: Gun violence, Pedophilia, Self harm

Okay, the list of content warnings makes this look horrific. And it is, in a way. It's a book about terrible people doing terrible things. But they get what's coming to them. It's worth it, promise 🧡

sarahcelia's review against another edition

1.0

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I don’t mind an “I see dead people” story, especially when dark magic and secret societies are involved. Ninth House was way too much for me in terms of cursing, sexual assault, sexual content, etc. I read far longer than I should have because the premise of the book is so compelling. And for a little while the content that bothered me just seemed to distract from the narrative, not overshadow it. But it quickly built up to eclipsing the story for me. 

Leigh Bardugo is an excellent writer. Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom are new favorites from my reading list this year. But Ninth House was absolutely not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Blood, Alcohol

Minor: Abandonment, Colonisation, Classism

spworley's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Excrement