

I have had a lot of trouble with this book. The cover perfectly reflects what a dark and moody book Ninth House is. I like how the snake hides behind and between the letters. I like the colors and the hose is really cool. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive.įirst I would like to say that I am a huge fan of this cover. These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most elite universities on a full ride. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. There were always excuses for why girls died.Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class.

I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.Īll you children playing with fire, looking surprised when the house burns down. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive.


Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class.
