First Impression Friday – The Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Welcome to another First Impression Friday. In case this is your first time, here’s the rundown:

• Based on this sampling of your current read, give a few impressions
and predict
what you’ll think by the end.
• Did you think you’d love and ended up hating it? Or did you think
you’d hate it and wound up loving it? Or were you exactly right?
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First Impression Fridays out there!

 

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, in fact, 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 to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive.

Let’s talk about The Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo.

The start is… confusing. We start right in the middle of events and are expected to catch up, which I like, but it’s taking a lot longer to catch up than normal. I’m hoping that leads to some real a ha moments down the road, but right now I’m just scratching my head a lot and picking up little things here and there.

In this beginning phase, the world is being laid out for me, and it’s all very interesting, but I’m anxious to get to the crux of this story.

My Prediction: An optimistic 4 stars

Fun fact about this post: I’ll be taking part in a blog tour for this book on October 9!