Hell Bent

The instant Sunday Times bestselling global sensation from the author of The Familiar

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SEQUEL TO NINTH HOUSE

THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR BEST FANTASY OF 2023
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Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell.

Galaxy 'Alex' Stern is determined to break Darlington out of hell - even if it endangers her future at Lethe and at Yale.

But Alex is playing with forces far beyond her control, and when faculty members begin to die off, she knows these aren't just accidents.

Something deadly is at work in New Haven, and if Alex is going to survive, she'll have to reckon with the monsters of her past and a darkness built into the university's very walls.

Thick with history and packed with Bardugo's signature twists, Hell Bent brings to life an intricate world full of magic, violence, and all too real monsters.

PRAISE FOR NINTH HOUSE:

'Impossible to put down' STEPHEN KING

'One of the best fantasy novels I've read in years' LEV GROSSMAN

'Ninth House rocked my world' JOE HILL

'I wouldn't blame you for taking the day off to finish it' KELLY LINK

'Mesmerising' CHARLAINE HARRIS

'Compulsively readable' KIRKUS

'Atmospheric' BOOKLIST

'The fantasy novel of the year' THE I
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Leigh Bardugo's book 'Ninth House' was a No. 7 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 14-10-2019.
Leigh Bardugo's book 'Hell Bent' was a No. 2 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 09-01-2023.

Leigh BardugoLauren FortgangMichael David AxtellGollanczNinth House Series

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Overall, I like this book, the plot is compelling and it has some interesting concepts.
But there is no fundamental thought process given to how the Magic works, other books in this genre allow people to actually understand the magic so that characters can be innovative, in this book I feel like the Magic is all based on chosen one and wavy plot armour. Possibly this is because I’m a science guy, and this is clearly written as the magic of poetry, but it does feel like old words have power because they’re old, old objects have power because they’re old, rituals work because people in the past came up with them, and the rules change if the chosen one needs the rules to change.
The readers to reasonable performance, but they have a limited number of voices, everyone has the same American accent apart from the one foreign character who sounds more like a Russian stereotype then an Israeli American.
But like I say, it’s a fairly compelling plot so I will definitely be following the series in the future. Although I would like to have more focus put back on the houses, and for it to become a little bit more murder mystery like the first book. This one is definitely a different story to 9th House.