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Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

19 reviews

orlafitz14's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Really enjoyable, dark academia meets ghosts, kind of scary but I loved it.

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mc_castle's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I don't know if I enjoyed it, but I was GRIPPED. It's was a blend of dark academia, fantasy, a commentary on the upper classes and a murder mystery. Everything bad that could happen to someone happened to the protagonist but with ghosts involved. Also was interesting pacing as it wasn't linear storytelling, especially at the beginning where you're thrown into a weird future telling ritual, where a group of students reach into a man's innards to predict the stock market prices. With NO context. I was very confused at first. Also why do college kids have so much power? Read to find out.

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rory18's review against another edition

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I don't think I can stomach listening to this one. I'll read it later. 

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prairieraven's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25


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thenoodlevore's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I think the book tackled some difficult issues well and I could identify with some of the complex feelings of the characters. I appreciated the honesty in it. 

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annemoon's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5


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madinhoa's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75


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csmall73's review against another edition

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dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Dark intriguing mysterious 

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graciffer's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0


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clarisseep's review against another edition

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dark mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

It's been a day or so since I've finished this book but I honestly needed time to figure out what was my precise opinion on it with the help of communicating with others having already read this book and with the help of good and truly bad reviews of this book
This book has been on my TBR since it came out, even before I read the Six of Crows duology and the Shadow and Bone trilogy and it received TREMENDOUS amounts of hype, so I had (fairly) high expectations for this book
In itself the concept and premise of it seemed a great idea to me: a "magical underworld" in Yale with secret societies, the place of magic with privilege, wealth, class, race
but EVERY deeper topic was only brushed over and even the presence of rape too???
also... why is the most appreciated character a middle class white man (which I like, thank you Darlington for being there a it in this book... even though you somehow only existed in the past) ??
when the main character is a poor female PoC and the literal overall villains rich white men abusing magic (and everything else) and the cause of all the problems a white woman from the 1800s??? 
you see the very little insistence on race and gender and wealth but somehow it ends up being like this? 
I feel like I cannot really find what I have to say with this point, but you just bore with me while reading all of this: me trying to make a point without really knowing what to say 

I think I also have problems with this book's pace which is, shortly said, truly inconsistent and hard to get into... until almost the end
in conclusion, I'm honestly disappointed, because I expected way more, but I still want to read the next one to see if it's going to be as bad as this one 

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