i REALLY disliked this book. it’s not something i would usually pick up but i thought i would try something different, especially because i love leigh bardugo’s six of crows and i’d heard good things about this one. it seemed quite compelling; however, i was sadly disappointed 💀 in my opinion, this book is filled with a bunch of hocus pocus bullshit and i’m not even gonna lie i had absolutely NO clue what was going on 90% of the time.

the writing style and the entire plot was SO goddamn confusing to me, it literally made my head ache to read a few chapters. none of the characters were even slightly interesting except for darlington, and still we hardly know anything about him!! there was too little character development and dialogue and wayyyy too much useless description of irrelevant details. it took so long only to make such minimal progress in the plot that i just got bored so fast.

i saw a review that said “this book is like one giant pretentious information dump with a flavorless cast”, and tbh that perfectly sums up my thoughts on ninth house.

anyway, kinda sad that the first book i read in 2024 was such a flop but eh you win some you lose some. hopefully it only gets better from here!!