omg.
I used to love fantasy, but as I grew up I grew out of a lot of that. Outlander and Harry Potter are about as much as I can handle, or at least, that’s what I thought before reading Ninth House.
After seeing about 100 people talking about this book when they got ARC’s, I requested my library purchase it when it was released and I got it the next day. I avoided reading it because I was not sure if I’d like it, but once I got started I couldn’t stop.
I will say, this book was a little slow to start. I was really confused and there was so much happening the first few chapters that I felt really lost and almost DNF. However I stuck with it and it proved to be worth it!
This is like a murder mystery meets magical fraternities meets ghosts. Sorta. It’s really like nothing I’ve ever read before.
Alex can see ghosts, and after a traumatic childhood and a homicide, she is brought to Yale by a secret society for her abilities to see ghosts. This secret society is like the police for the other secret societies that all do magic. After a girl is murdered, Alex begins some on the side investigating and opens up a mystery that spans hundreds of years and is way more complicated, and dangerous, than she thought.
Even though Ninth House has ghosts and demons and blood magic, it ain’t quite as creepy as I thought it would be which is good for fraidy cats like me! I’m going to give this book ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ because while it was super interesting and I loved it, it was so hard to start and really hard to follow at times. There is so much that you need to know as the reader and it feels disorganized sometimes. Also this book should include a trigger warning for sexual assault, drug use, and violence.
My six word review of Ninth House:
Business frats with magic and ghosts
