Description
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.
Fermin Weissnat @wuckert.delphine_662
February 14, 2023
5
I'm deliberately reading slowly and savoring every world of this long-awaited sequel to Ninth House. But I'm so overjoyed to be back in the 'magical Yale' universe, and to spend time again with these people that I have missed so much - and this time it's the glowing evocation of the mood and tells of the seasons that is unexpectedly moving for me, as well as the good company.