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A review by macleodholdfast
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
4.0
Hmm.
Having read 5 other Leigh Bardugo books, this one felt VERY different not just because it doesn't take place in the Grishaverse. It's so much angrier. There's gore, sexual assault, drug use, horrors upon horrors. Once I got to the THIRD instance of a sexual assault I kind of wanted to DNF. I was thinking "Jesus christ, Leigh, what's gotten into you?"
This feels like one big allegory for the rampant sexual assaults that occur on college campuses and are never punished to protect the institutions. This feels like the kind of rage that might build up in a person after Brock Turner got out in only 3 months. This is an angry, mean, hard to read book.
But at the same time, I wanted to know where the mysteries would lead. I liked the non-linear structure. I was intrigued and in pain for most of this reading experience, but it felt like I needed that rawness to get to the heart of it all.
The ending feels messy and a little OP, which is what keeps this from being five stars for me. But I want to read Hell Bent, so I suppose it did its job.
Having read 5 other Leigh Bardugo books, this one felt VERY different not just because it doesn't take place in the Grishaverse. It's so much angrier. There's gore, sexual assault, drug use, horrors upon horrors. Once I got to the THIRD instance of a sexual assault I kind of wanted to DNF. I was thinking "Jesus christ, Leigh, what's gotten into you?"
This feels like one big allegory for the rampant sexual assaults that occur on college campuses and are never punished to protect the institutions. This feels like the kind of rage that might build up in a person after Brock Turner got out in only 3 months. This is an angry, mean, hard to read book.
But at the same time, I wanted to know where the mysteries would lead. I liked the non-linear structure. I was intrigued and in pain for most of this reading experience, but it felt like I needed that rawness to get to the heart of it all.
The ending feels messy and a little OP, which is what keeps this from being five stars for me. But I want to read Hell Bent, so I suppose it did its job.