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A review by alimoo511
Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
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
5.0
I love how each passing story we are being more and more disillusioned with the world but also growing more attached to the guts of it all. I truly found myself panicking sometimes despite my real-world desire for New Haven to eat dirt. Also, I can confirm that a hole to hell is there.
I loved the kinda flip Alex and Darlington have, where Alex is becoming more enamored with aspects of her life, finding Haven in a place that also brought pain.
While Darlington is the one kinda haunted now, struggling with the desire to remain the same, but also understanding he has a role he must mimick despite the seeming futility of it. How he is now the outsider clinging to a hero he can not afford to fully confront his feelings for.
The found family that is developing too is just gorgeous.
And just I never really felt much magic to the wealthier end of Connecticut.
Growing up, it only really felt magical in the sense that they keep up the maintenance of their cities and towns and not worry about taxes and food.
I also hated them because it made outsiders falsely believe we are all just a bunch of wealthy generational Legacies taking advantage of our state's high taxes to make a nirvana of elitism. When we are really struggling to just keep our state alive as this like mini scale of US where tiny little blips of counties reap all the benefits while the true beauty and history of the state falls further into disrepair.
This book shows that, but I also feel the tiniest slivers of love toward it now. Like Leigh is doing a really good job balancing her dark academic story with the reality and struggle of trying to save my state from the recklessness of the wealthy.
I did think the writing felt a little bit weaker than Ninth House but I also felt like it was in part of Alex no longer desiring to be an imitation of how she imagined she should be as a Yale Student and more like realizing none of this, magical or not, is very different than her life up till now
I loved the kinda flip Alex and Darlington have, where Alex is becoming more enamored with aspects of her life, finding Haven in a place that also brought pain.
While Darlington is the one kinda haunted now, struggling with the desire to remain the same, but also understanding he has a role he must mimick despite the seeming futility of it. How he is now the outsider clinging to a hero he can not afford to fully confront his feelings for.
The found family that is developing too is just gorgeous.
And just I never really felt much magic to the wealthier end of Connecticut.
Growing up, it only really felt magical in the sense that they keep up the maintenance of their cities and towns and not worry about taxes and food.
I also hated them because it made outsiders falsely believe we are all just a bunch of wealthy generational Legacies taking advantage of our state's high taxes to make a nirvana of elitism. When we are really struggling to just keep our state alive as this like mini scale of US where tiny little blips of counties reap all the benefits while the true beauty and history of the state falls further into disrepair.
This book shows that, but I also feel the tiniest slivers of love toward it now. Like Leigh is doing a really good job balancing her dark academic story with the reality and struggle of trying to save my state from the recklessness of the wealthy.
I did think the writing felt a little bit weaker than Ninth House but I also felt like it was in part of Alex no longer desiring to be an imitation of how she imagined she should be as a Yale Student and more like realizing none of this, magical or not, is very different than her life up till now