The series is amongst the most enjoyable world building I've experienced in a book - so good it's like another character. It's quite a dark series, both in setting and characters (who are all versions of grey - there are no clear cut 'heroes'). There's something I just love about the protagonist, Alex Stern. Maybe it's her sheer spunk, but I love her. I adored the little Lethe group family of friends, and the ending felt both right and really satisfying. Highly recommend this series!
The highly anticipated, explosive conclusion to the Ninth House trilogy from Sunday Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo.
Hell is empty and all the devils are here...
Alex Stern made it to hell and back more than once, but this time she left the door open behind her. Demons are creeping through the streets of New Haven and the Yale campus, feeding on the souls of the living, terrifying the dead. Alex and her allies can hunt them, but it's only a matter of time before the gates to the underworld spring wide and they face a war they cannot win.…
Winner of the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction A SUNDAY TIMES & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL, 'one of our greatest living authors' NEW YORK MAGAZINE __________________________________ Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has.
In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend,…
'Hadeer Elsbai has written a powerful story of sisterhood, love, and struggle within a rich, vibrant world with complicated characters that leap from the page to smash the patriarchy!' P. Djeli Clark, author of A Master of Djinn, on The Daughters of Izdihar
Following up on one of the most exciting fantasy debuts, The Daughters of Izdihar, Hadeer Elsbai concludes her Alamaxa duology, inspired by Egyptian history, with a tale of magic, betrayal and love.
Magic is no longer banned in Alamaxa, but across the border the Zirani are readying their cannons. They will stop at nothing to end what…
One kingdom bound by duty. Another ruled by fear. And a woman caught between them.
Once the finest warrior of her generation, Talyn Dynan now measures every step against the fear of failing again. Still haunted by the partner she couldn't save, she takes an assignment far from home, hoping to find redemption. But Mithranar is no ordinary place. Its people have wings, its court is a viper's nest of politics, and something restless stirs in the shadows beneath the surface. Tasked with forging a royal guard from the human outcasts no one else will touch, she builds the one thing she swore she'd never risk again—a family.
In the darkest streets of Mithranar, a masked rebel known as the Shadowhawk steals from the powerful and vanishes into the night. To the oppressed human folk, he represents something far more dangerous than crime. Hope.
Crossing his path forces Talyn to confront who she could become—and as loyalties blur and unrest rises, she must decide who she truly serves, and whether she's willing to stand with the people who were never meant to be hers.
