#ninth house sequel

[drowningin-fantasies]

Leigh Bardugo Newsletter 6/7/22

Ninth House update:

[asthewintersun]

day 01/100 | one hundred days of books

i've spent this week reading ninth house, after finally getting my hands on it last november. i recall there being controversy when it was first released, but honestly, i still don't understand why it provoked so much anger. the book comes with its own undercurrents of anger, and with so much still unresolved i don't expect that to end any time soon, but there's also something cathartic in it, every time a man gets brutalised for his misogyny, every time alex gets to truly show who she is. this was definitely not an easy read, but it was a powerful one.

[peachcitt]

chapter 22 of my @ladrienjune fic greatest hits is out now!! finally!!!

you can read it here

thanks for reading<3

[sunfortune]

love reading ur hell bent posts so I can pretend that book was good. not that I didn't know what I was getting myself into. but I'm promising myself now that if they don't fuck I'm not reading book 3. there is literally nothing else in it for me.

unfortunately i’ve read the king of scars duology so every time it was a little slow i was like. still not as bad as leigh bardugo is very capable of making it (rule of wolves). count your blessings

[allthisheaven2]

thinking of picking up babel or yellowface by rf kuang.. will i be wasting my time

[sarahstudieschem]

30th of September 2022

Finished reading Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo last week (it was our book club book!) and I loved it, I even gave it 5 stars.

It starts a bit confusing but it’s SO worth it!! Very excited for the sequel in January.

xoxo Sarah

[satoshihiwatari]

so next up is the book that my housemate lent me (victorian lesbian murder mystery) :)

[bookshelf-dust]

📚 Love fantasy, thrillers, and a romance subplot. If it’s with royals and shit, even better. And magic? Sign me up!

slumber party shenanigans

📚 please don’t put chocolate in your popcorn—tell me what you like and i’ll give you a book recommendation (i am a self-proclaimed bookworm and i will do my best to think of something)

okay okay okay here i go:

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo. badass female main character. fantastical themes. magic!! mystery/thriller elements. slight slight romance subplot but it’s more so something you have to wonder about. it tugs at you.

and

There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins. thriller/slasher. romance subplot. keeps you guessing and makes you doubt everything all the time. makes you feel lots and lots of feelings. good range of characters to root for.

this just turned into me pushing some of my favorite books on you. leigh is my favorite author too. hopefully these sound interesting to you <33

[unganseylike]

did anyone else read the ninth house sequel im curious what yall think

[lovphobic]

ELECTRIFYING. IM READY FOR SHIT TO BE ANSWERED

[drowningin-fantasies]

If you want to listen to a really, really short clip from the audio edition of hell bent - here it is!!

[lucyfishwife]

This is just OUTSTANDING and I speak as someone who fucking devours books to the point where sometimes they’re all one big mingled frieze of book

[ekbelsher]

Leigh Bardugo asked me to draw Darlington from Ninth House! (I dropped my phone. She’s one of my all-time favourite authors). The sequel to Ninth House, HELL BENT, came out this week :)

[wingedshadowfan]

um. hell bent (ninth house sequel) spoilers ahead.

darlington has implied anger issues, alcohol problems, a dirty mind, insatiable curiosity, a hyperfixation on the arcane, he's a murderer and he doesn't regret it - he's basically always sinned. he's always been a little bad.

it's not that only now that he's part-demon he has to wrestle with this ominous darker being that's lurking inside him. it's always been a part of him (part of every human being i'd like to argue), he's just been able to shut it out, control it better, compartmentalize (as one does), and now he has no choice but to let it free, free himself from his own inhibitions

But as he was not quite human any longer, he supposed a more flexible approach to morality was called for.

he's intelligent enough to realize he basically has to learn to deal with the fact that he's now powerless to the urges of his own demons, pun intended

this is what i want to see in a future book, not him struggling to hold back or trying to school himself into an image of goodness and perfection, because he's always done that! i want him to let go, absolutely lose it and be unapologetically unhinged and sinister, kind of like how alex is but worse

[asexualbookbird]

BEHOLD! BOOKS I READ IN 2023!

A handful of rereads, a lot of new favorites, and I put a huge dent in my physical unread piles! I'm pretty happy with my reading year to be honest!

BEST OF 2023

Nettle and Bone by T Kingfisher - If I haven't talked about it enough please read this. An absolute DELIGHTFUL start to the year, which is odd to say of a book about abusive spouses and dead sisters. Like. I wanted to reread it right after finishing it, and will probably reread it this coming year, I loved it so much

The Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee - also heart wrenching but listen, there are BIRDS! Giant birds!!!! A strange pick me up during a bad time, but it WORKED!

To Shape A Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose - Oh what a marvelous read, a delightful adventure, I look forward to book two!

Provenance by Ann Leckie - don't hate me, but I think I might enjoy this more than the Imperial Radch trilogy. It's really what I wanted from A Memory Called Empire, and it was so much fun to see the Radchaai from a different perspective!

The Liar's Knot by MA Carrick - DEROSSI VARGO, MY BELOVED! But also, this has such rich worldbuilding. Every time there's a Pattern reading in a scene, the authors did their own reading in real life and put the results in the book. They came up with multiple calendars for the world. And it never feels overwhelming, everything is integrated so naturally! Ren heists an entire family for her and her sister. A lovely brick of a book :)

Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire - I think this might be my favorite Wayward Children book so far, I'm glad these books are bite sized because I want to read them over and over <3

The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie - WHAT A FUNKY LITTLE BOOK!

WORST OF 2023

Black Wings Beating by Alex London - birds would not fucking do that. Why are we following the most insufferable of the characters. Why is everything about him, even the parts about his sister. Blegh.

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo - this canNOT be the same book tumblr couldn't stop talking about for months. I know I shouldn't judge a book by its sequel, but I know about the glowing demon dick. Come on. Also, like, the whole book was building up to rescuing someone and then THEY NEVER DID! wtf lol

Tress and the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson - Snooze. Yawn. Snore. One of the most boring books I've read. I was right to avoid Mr Sandwich and his books.

Whalefall by Daniel Kraus - I feel bad because someone hyped this a lot and was excited about it, and so I was excited about it, but it read like it was written specifically for a movie in mind. It's just Daddy Issues™️in the ocean.

This does not include rereads, of which Name of the Wind was one. Yes, I still loved that one. Still fun, still weird that it never felt long despite being a BRICK. Proof I don't hate long books because they're long, I hate long books that don't have to be long. Which is why the Dishonorable mention goes to Priory of the Orange Tree lol Get edited, beloathed.

Anyway! Onwards to 2024! :)

[madonnamadeofasphalt]

All this talk about how Gideon the Ninth is “genre-busting” but I’ve just read it and the only thing it’s busting is medium, because it’s a very by-the-book jRPG (or at least, the first act of a larger jRPG) written as a novel

opening on an obvious fighting tutorial and an unwinnable boss fight

immediately after that, Gideon gets an obvious downgrade (switch from longsword to rapier) to justify why she’s suddenly level 1 despite having studied the blade her whole life

the entire middle section of the novel is a straight-up dungeon crawl with a series of elaborate puzzles and boss fights, interwoven with dating sim elements up in the Canaan House

the relatively chill high school AU atmosphere gets abruptly broken by people starting to die horrible and mysterious deaths

despite all the dramatic historical magic shit, the subplot you actually end up caring most about is the slowly evolving romance between the jackass himbo protag and the mysterious tsundere deuteragonist

multi-phase final boss fight with a heroic sacrifice downer ending and a post-credit scene that teases the sequels (they never found the bodies and Harrow serves God now, oooo!)

judging from the spoilers I’ve read, it’s very probable the entire series will culminate in one team of anime lesbians or another fighting and killing God (for good this time), probably with more heroic sacrifices