Throughout the novel’s fast-moving plot, Bardugo weaves Alex’s world of magic into more contemporary experiences of trauma, elitism, and regret.
Not much has changed since “Ninth House”: Yale’s class reading lists are grueling, secret magic societies are performing rituals that transform the world, and Alex’s mentor Darlington is still missing somewhere in hell. “Hell Bent,” a sequel to Bardugo’s much-loved adult fantasy novel “Ninth House,” follows the struggles of Yale’s strangest sophomore, Galaxy “Alex” Stern.
College sophomores have it the worst: navigating new housing, mind-numbing general education classes, and, in Leigh Bardugo’s most recent novel, fighting the demons of hell.
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