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Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

451 reviews

eviethebookworm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Sexual violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Gore, and Vomit

Minor: Medical trauma and Classism

sarahcelia's review

1.0

I don’t mind an “I see dead people” story, especially when dark magic and secret societies are involved. Ninth House was way too much for me in terms of cursing, sexual assault, sexual content, etc. I read far longer than I should have because the premise of the book is so compelling. And for a little while the content that bothered me just seemed to distract from the narrative, not overshadow it. But it quickly built up to eclipsing the story for me. 

Leigh Bardugo is an excellent writer. Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom are new favorites from my reading list this year. But Ninth House was absolutely not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Blood, and Alcohol

Minor: Abandonment, Colonisation, and Classism

sarahlkelly's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Vomit

zia_c's review against another edition

The prologue and the first chapter read like it was written high on marijuana. Smh! There's so much unnecessary info dump and random cut offs of narrations that I couldn't comprehend where the hell the author was going with the narrative. 

The heroine came out to me as a self centered, self righteous, harmonal teenager. Why? You may wonder. It's because she's whining about one thing or the other every two sentences and thinking about Darlington on every third. She's also kinda dumb and annoying.  Idk how the hell she got the job when she can't even follow basic instructions and endangered a group of people with her because of her rampant monologues of fuck knows what. 

I don't think I can continue further because it's really hurting my brain to understand the story and the character. Even mathematics never gave me this kinda pain. 

Anyway, this book was a part of a book club this month that's why I gave it a flip. I hope others enjoy it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Blood, Vomit, and Medical content

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

asmaltz3's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Rape, Vomit, and Murder

libcolleen's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Drug use, Blood, Medical content, and Classism

Minor: Vomit

bookdrag0n's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

keotshepile's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit

salty_mermaid's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Reading Ninth House was exciting and I thoroughly enjoyed the gothic vibes. I love Dark Academia and witchcraft. There were numerous times the writing felt grimy and raw and electrified, as if exposed to a live wire. 

Despite loving the story and world-building overall, I rated it lower because there was one huge turnoff. I felt the rape scene was far too violent. So much so that it felt gratuitous, from 0 to 100.

Like if it’s not based on a real story, god forbid, why have a 12 yr old who just got her period get brutally raped by a dead ghost?

At the time this event was announced, I hadn’t yet been completely sold by the fantasy or bought in to the world. 

After that, it felt like the author was trying too hard to explain why Alex was a tortured convict/ drug addict. As someone who has experienced the perils of drug addiction first hand, i can say that I don’t believe the author has experienced the type of drug addiction depicted in the book because the writing wasn’t believable in this regard. And maybe the author doesn’t proclaim to have this experience, I just think this part of the book needed more attention and care. 

Either way, I enjoyed the book and I applaud Bardugo for venturing into the realm of dark academia.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Gore, Rape, Excrement, Vomit, and Murder

ghostcoffeeshop's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Blood, and Alcohol

Moderate: Gore, Sexual assault, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail