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A review by ashleigheva
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
4.0
man the last 100 ish pages were so so so good, it was a series of huge payoffs one after another, delivered so excitingly
but the 350 pages before that got hard to follow at times, although i am not sure if that is perhaps just a symptom of my own intellectual incompetency, as well as occasionally overtly contrived in the sense that things were clearly happening to serve a narrative function but it felt like there weren't enough more natural moments to really balance things out and justify why the characters were doing certain things if not for that aforementioned reason.
although for some reason, even at the times when i felt like i had no clue what was going on, i knew i couldn't give this book anything less than a 4/5
ahh yes and i enjoyed the development of alex and dawes' relationship. go female friendships in prose!!
also wow a fantasy crime mystery. very very out of the norm for me but i think there is something to be discovered here. perhaps more to come.
but the 350 pages before that got hard to follow at times, although i am not sure if that is perhaps just a symptom of my own intellectual incompetency, as well as occasionally overtly contrived in the sense that things were clearly happening to serve a narrative function but it felt like there weren't enough more natural moments to really balance things out and justify why the characters were doing certain things if not for that aforementioned reason.
although for some reason, even at the times when i felt like i had no clue what was going on, i knew i couldn't give this book anything less than a 4/5
ahh yes and i enjoyed the development of alex and dawes' relationship. go female friendships in prose!!
also wow a fantasy crime mystery. very very out of the norm for me but i think there is something to be discovered here. perhaps more to come.