


Darlington, the wunderkind of Lethe, Alex’s mentor and maybe something more, is gone, presumed dead after the events of Ninth House. She’s capable and cantankerous, but in Hell Bent she’s also desperate. Alex is a member of Lethe, the ninth house, which monitors the other houses to make sure they don’t go too far.

But as firmly established in author Leigh Bardugo’s excellent Ninth House, Alex isn’t built for rest, especially when there’s still work to do. Īfter her first brush with the dark underworld of Yale University-in this world, the school’s infamous secret societies are called houses, and their members are practitioners of magic-Alex Stern deserves a sabbatical. Rejoice, Bardugo fans and dark academia lovers: You’ll get much more of the spooky stuff you crave in the extraordinary Hell Bent.
