Loved itI read ninth house and hellbent and I really liked how engaging and pulpy and campy they were
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Hell Bent (2023)
Others: Mostly positive 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.
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- 9781250313102
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- 448 pages
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Not a fanI don't care about the characters I don't care about the plot the plot is so convoluted
Loved itusually I just forget everything about a book the moment I read it but I still have all of her descriptions of New Haven and the university and the starry nights just burned into my brain I just love it when University students start summoning demons and opening portals to hell
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Mixedthe more I sit with this the less I like it to be honest I loved the first one which is 9th house and elements of hellbent I liked but ... parts of the middle dragged
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Loved itpersonally I had such a fun time it was better than the first one in my opinion and I loved it because it's all about found family and friendship my favorite
Loved itOh my god, this book was so [ __ ] good. This is the second book in the Ninth House series.