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Cargando... Ninth House (Alex Stern) (edición 2019)por Leigh Bardugo (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is my second time trying to read this, and I did make it half way this time. But unfortunately, as much as I want to like this book because the concept sounds awesome, it's not for me. I don't enjoy the main character at all, and the plot is too slow to make up for that and the many sensitive topics that seemed somewhat overindulged. I love Bardugo's style and descriptiveness, but this one is just not my cup of tea! sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. 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. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she's thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world's most prestigious universities on a full ride. What's the catch, and why her? Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale's secret societies. Their eight windowless "tombs" are the well-known haunts of the rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street's biggest players. But their occult activities are more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. They tamper with forbidden magic. They raise the dead. And, sometimes, they prey on the living. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The story goes back and forth between the present in winter with Alex's investigation and the past fall when her mentor, Darlington, hadn't yet gone missing. Eventually the two storylines converge and we learn what brought Alex to Yale and how it affects her present. I knew this was dark academia fantasy, but I didn't quite anticipate the level of violence and intensity throughout. The mystery was well done, and Bardugo addresses power and privilege in a fantasy Yale. ( )