I fell in love with the darkly magical Yale that Alex discovered in the first book of this series. I read a bunch of books in between, but I thought I’d put these two reviews together. There are lots of bad things that happen, but I personally fell in love with the characters and couldn’t wait to see what happened next. This review doesn’t even begin to set up this book properly, but I also don’t want to spoil anything. It’s something she felt was a curse for her life up to this point, but Yale sees it as a powerful and useful talent. She’s a former drug addict and high school dropout who can see ghosts (called greys in this series). They watch over the rituals to make sure no ghosts or other creatures get out and wreak havoc on Yale. Lethe (the ninth house) is like the magical gatekeeper. Wolf’s Head members are shapeshifters, Skull and Bones prognosticates about the market by rooting around in a live person’s organs, Book and Snake specializes in necromancy, and Aurelian uses word binding and divination through language. There are actually secret societies at Yale, but in Ninth House they’re all magical. This book is about the eight secret societies of Yale, and the fictional ninth house which keeps them all in line. It legitimately took me over three years to finally read it. I just remember hearing about it on the radio (and I really only listen to NPR), and then immediately buying the kindle book from Amazon.
I can like hear her voice talking about it, but I can’t seem to verify that, so take my memory with a grain of salt.
I swear I heard about this book on NPR, and I swear it was Mary Louise Kelly talking about it.
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