Hell Bent - Leigh Bardugo

Hell Bent

By Leigh Bardugo

  • Release Date: 2023-01-10
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Score: 4.5
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Description

#1 New York Times Bestseller • Goodreads Choice Award Winner

"A tour de force of suspenseful pacing and empathetic writing." ―The New York Times

"All hail the queen of dark academia!" ―NPR

Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. The Ivy League is going straight to hell in the sequel to the smash New York Times bestseller Ninth House from #1 bestselling author Leigh Bardugo.

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.

Thick with history and packed with Bardugo’s signature twists, Hell Bent brings to life an intricate world full of magic, violence, and all too real monsters.

Reviews

  • Hard to put down.

    3
    By Lee Finlay
    Everyone needs a Dawes. Helps you with spells and conjuring AND makes dinner afterwards.

  • 3.5/4 stars

    4
    By KThugs3
    Honestly, it’s between a 3.5 - 4 stars for me. However, I do want to see where the series takes Galaxy Stern and her hodgepodge of misfit friends in future books, so I feel it would realistically be a 3.75 stars. Anyways, I waited patiently for this book to come out, because I had enjoyed the first one a lot. This one definitely had some twist and turns. I probably should have re-read the first book in the series before reading this book, because I forgot a lot of the plot line and a refresher would have been nice. After all, I read the first one in the early days of the pandemic - and boy was that a long time ago.

  • Outstanding sequel

    5
    By bkgh249
    Sophomore slump who? This was excellent. I loved every little twist. Well-written, relatable, darkly funny, just delightful. Give us book 3 right meow.

  • Worth the wait

    5
    By Lfinley3
    I have been waiting for this since about three days after Ninth House was released. When I started reading, I had forgotten enough that I then need to reread Ninth House first. I felt like I was never going to get to finish this story. Now I’m so grateful that there’s more and that I get to feel that way a little longer. This is one of my all time favorite series. Well written, amazing characters and perfection in the form of world building. Read this and be grateful that it’s not over yet.

  • Most excellent

    5
    By rollmansf
    Unlike her YA grisha novels, this series shows the authors’ true capabilities. Gritty, funny and moving. I loved it.

  • Wow

    5
    By joyfulone1
    These 2 books should be made into a show and/or movies Every character is real and she does an excellent job making you believe in each one.

  • Amazing

    5
    By Hugopoogo
    Loved every second of it.

  • The tension is killing me

    5
    By nonniereads
    I loved this book and all the emotional twists and turns that came with it. The tension between Alex and Darlington is killing me though…

  • OBSESSED

    5
    By nyc20068
    I annoyed my friends about this book the entire week that I was reading it. I couldn’t get enough of it. Still haven’t. I feel like Not Tripp, so hungry for more. I loved the way LB changed povs when they entered the Gauntlet. And most of all I loved darlingstern. They were INSANE

  • Absolutely fascinating.

    5
    By allie:))))
    Could not stop reading. The characters, witty jokes, newly opened storylines. One of the best books ever written.

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