Hell Bent: A Novel (Alex Stern, 2)
#1 New York Times Bestseller
From the author of Shadow and Bone, now a hit NETFLIX series "Readers will be wowed." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) 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. "Bardugo's imaginative reach is brilliant." -Stephen KingA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 by The New York Times, The Week, Kirkus Reviews, PopSugar, Distractify, Booklist Queen, The Nerd Daily, 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.
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This book was much much better than the first and I found myself reading as fast as I could cause I wanted to know what was going to happen next. I wanted a little bit more romance between the MCs but still these books were very good and I cannot wait for the third
We’re going to hell and not everyone will make it out alive.
Alex and Dawes are are determined to bring Darlington back from hell. The problem is, they have to learn how to do so. Enlisting the help of Turner, Tripp, and Mercy, the group figures out the riddle to the gate and makes the descent.
As expected, nothing goes according to plan and demons follow them back. In a race to close the gate, the group finds them facing off against vampires and demons, while also trying to solve a murder.
In this wildly chaotic story, we delve deeper into the lives and pasts of Alex, Darlington, Dawes, Turner, Tripp, and Mercy.
Lauren Fortang and Michael David Axtell bring this story to life in a captivating way, leaving you wanting more. I’ve listened to both Ninth House and He’ll Bent on Audible, and I think it just adds to the experience.
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