What’s great about magic sometimes is that it doesn’t need to make sense or be logical, it’s magic! Although more and more was revealed in terms of abilities and stories of the different types of magic, I was not unbelievably surprised or skeptical, but accepted them as facts as part of the world. There are so many layers involved when you add in the magic, demons, ghosts, and every other fantastical element you can think of.
It took me nearly the whole book to discern the different houses and what larger role Alex and her crew play amongst these secret societies. Some of these memories are relived in present day which I could only imagine what that spiral would feel like.
The back story of Alex is not a pleasant one and was extremely brutal and uncomfortable to read. When I picked Ninth House for the Path or Pantheon July Reading Challenge as a dark story, I had no idea it would be this dark. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most elite universities on a full ride. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Add magical secret societies to a collegiate experience and you have a novel that twists and turns from end to end. Jumping from the YA Shadow and Bone series to the adult series of Ninth House, the world-building style of Leigh Bardugo is evident, but this is a whole new ballgame.
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