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Ninth House, by Leigh Bardugo, is a good read for fans of the academia, secrets, and murder in The Secret History, Although where The Secret History skirts into horror to discuss morality of murder and the classical mysteries, Ninth House is more about the privilege powering secret societies. And, instead of just hinting at dark, ancient rituals offstage, Ninth House goes right in. Belongs to SeriesAlex Stern (1) Is contained in
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. 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 elite 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, well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than she ever imagined . . . No library descriptions found. |
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Alex gets caught up in several murder mysteries. One murder is current with a bunch of potential suspects, and the other murder is from 100 years ago brought to her by a ghost. And the person who is supposed to be teaching her how to deal with all of this has disappeared under suspicious circumstances.
This is called a horror story, but reads more like a mystery/thriller. And even though it's categorized as not YA, it really felt like a YA book to me. There is a clear distinction between the "kids" and the "adults", all the adults are clueless or bumbling or untrustworthy, each of the main "kid" character's parents are invoked during the course of the story, a disproportionate and not believable amount of responsibility is placed on the shoulders of the "kids" and yet no adult takes these same "kids" seriously.
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