Hell Bent: A Novel

· Ninth House Series Book 2 · Sold by Flatiron Books
4.6
41 reviews
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448
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#1 New York Times BestsellerGoodreads 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.


A BEST BOOK OF 2023: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BookPage, Powell's, and more!!

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.

Ratings and reviews

4.6
41 reviews
Megan Infield
June 20, 2023
This sequel delivered everything I could have hoped for and more. Excellent character and relationship development, angst, chaos, and occasional hilarity. I absolutely adore it after multiple reads, and the characters have such a special place in my heart. Whereas Ninth House had a lot of delicious vengeance and righteous anger, this one feels like it's about the healing. We love to see it. God bless, Ms. Bardugo.
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Nurul A. K.
January 13, 2023
Immaculate. A master story-telling. Fantasy (and romance) at its best.
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Sasha Winslow
March 23, 2023
What a rollercoaster of a book. The history, the lore, the character development, the imagery....wow.
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About the author

Leigh Bardugo is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and the creator of the Grishaverse (now a Netflix original series) which spans the Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows duology, The Language of Thorns, and King of Scars—with more to come. Her other works include Wonder Woman: Warbringer and Ninth House (Goodreads Choice Winner for Best Fantasy 2019), which is being developed for television by Amazon Studios. She lives in Los Angeles and is an Associate Fellow of Pauli Murray College at Yale University.

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