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Ninth House (Ninth House Series, 1)

Leigh Bardugo

"The best fantasy novel I’ve read in years, because it’s about real people... Impossible to put down." ―Stephen King 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...

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

Klein described the fantasy novel as a fun, dark portrayal of Yale secret societies performing satanic rituals.

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I just read a fantasy novel by Leigh Bardugo called Ninth House, which is set at Yale. ... the conceit of the book is that the secret societies are, in fact, evil places that carry out dark satanic ri...

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Klein described the fantasy novel as a fun, dark portrayal of Yale secret societies performing satanic rituals.

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I just read a fantasy novel by Leigh Bardugo called Ninth House, which is set at Yale. ... the conceit of the book is that the secret societies are, in fact, evil places that carry out dark satanic rituals. And it was just so much fun to have my college re-represented as a place of dark and terrible secrets.

Fresh Air

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Fresh Air

Ninth House was referenced as one of Bardugo's adult novels and discussed regarding its secretsociety magic at Yale.

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Lee Bardugo is well known for her YA books in The Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows series as well as her adult books Ninth House and Hellbent.

— Episode: Best Of: Jon Bon Jovi / Fantasy Writer L...

Episode: Best Of: Jon Bon Jovi / Fantasy Writer Leigh Bardu...

Ninth House was referenced as one of Bardugo's adult novels and discussed regarding its secretsociety magic at Yale.

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Lee Bardugo is well known for her YA books in The Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows series as well as her adult books Ninth House and Hellbent.

in Ninth House and Hellbent there are very real secret societies at Yale that to one degree wield economic, social, political influence.

The first two books came out before The Familiar - it's I guess I'm gonna call it the Ninth House series - there are two of them so far, Ninth House and Hellbent.

Episode: Fantasy Writer Leigh Bardugo On Magic & Miracles

She talked about her adult debut Ninth House, noting it was her first nonYA novel and discussing its themes of secret societies and magic at Yale.

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as well as her adult books Ninth House and Hellbent.

9th House was officially your first book for adults, not YA.

With 9th House and Hellbent and the familiar, the goals of my characters are much more like my own goals in this life.

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