Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
I originally wrote this review in January 2020, back when this website was still a twinkle in my eye (ahh I miss those pre-COVID days). I love, love, love this novel:
Leigh Bardugo is a bestselling YA writer known for her āGrishaverseā, an alternate universe she has created through her novels, starting with the Shadow and Bone trilogy, continuing with Six of Crows, Crooked Kingdom, and more recently King of Scars, which is based on Tsarist Russia and is full of magic and the supernatural. Her books are being made into a series on Netflix (yay!), and I highly recommend them, if you are into the YA genre.
When I first heard that she wrote an adult novel, I wasnāt immediately excited. I realize that adult novels can contain magic and the supernatural, but thatās not what I think of when I think of adult novels, and I donāt read a lot of adult novels with supernatural and/or magical plots. For some reason I expected Bardugoās āadultā novel to be completely different from her YA novels and more grounded in (our) reality. When I realized that it would, in fact, contain supernatural elements, then I became eager to read it, and I had a really hard time putting down this novel until I finished it.
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