Hell Bent
2023 • 496 pages
Ratings81
Average rating4.1
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Ratings81
Average rating4.1
Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell. Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. But Galaxy "Alex" Stern is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory?even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale. Forbidden from attempting a rescue, Alex and Dawes can't call on the Ninth House for help, so they assemble a team of dubious allies to save the gentleman of Lethe. Together, they will have to navigate a maze of arcane texts and bizarre artifacts to uncover the societies' most closely guarded secrets, and break every rule doing it. But when faculty members begin to die off, Alex knows these aren't just accidents. Something deadly is at work in New Haven, and if she 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.
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2 primary booksAlex Stern is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2019 with contributions by Leigh Bardugo.
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give me Darlington or give me death
Edit: Vastly different from Ninth House, but I had a really good time reading it. I love the characters much more than I did in book one, and the new plot was really engaging!
A third book is coming! I am...not sure about how I feel about the major plot point of it, though. That said, I really enjoyed this book. I loved the little references to actual New Haven (I worked at Blue State Coffee!), and the funny historic references through the artifacts. I am giving it 4 stars instead of 5 because I do feel like it jumped the shark with one specific plot addition which I won't mention to avoid spoilers.
