![]() ![]() ![]() With her ability to see ghosts, she is perfectly suited to help Lethe House oversee the other eight magical societies at Yale. While in the hospital after surviving a horrendous multiple murder, Alex is invited to attend Yale as a member of Lethe House. Oh, and she is one of the very few people in the world who can see ghosts. ![]() She dropped out of high school, got involved with heavy drugs, and fell in with the type of crowd who would leave your dead body in a back alley for missing rent. And if they have to kidnap a homeless person and use their entrails to learn which investments to make in the future, what’s that to them?Īlex Stern is about the furthest thing from an upper class socialite. The rich hoard it for themselves and control most of its access. The Ninth House treats magic like a commodity. Harry Potter explores magic as a mystical and wondrous thing that can be perverted for evil by a select few who follow a darker path. The only things even remotely in common are that both books explore the concept of a hidden magical world and take place primarily at a school. Let’s get this out of the way upfront: This is not Harry Potter. Whenever a new book is released that includes the concept of a magic school, comparisons are inevitably made to Harry Potter. Sexual assault, graphic rape, murder, gore, forced eating of excrement, drug abuse, and more ![]()
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