![]() ![]() ![]() It’s not mandatory to read “Ninth House” to enjoy “Hell Bent,” but readers who start here will miss out on crucial back stories and world-building details. Elmo conjures storms Book and Snake can reanimate the dead.) A shadowy regulatory body known as Lethe presides over the societies’ supernatural rituals and polices their use of magic, like a fantastical version of OSHA. (Skull and Bones, for instance, uses human entrails to make stock market predictions for influential alumni St. Much of it is concentrated in the university’s real-life senior societies, whose fictional versions each traffic in a single arcane magical specialty. ![]() Just like its predecessor, this novel conjures a Yale swirling with all manner of magic - by turns frivolous, self-enriching, reckless, amusing and very dark indeed. It is here that they plan to carry out a daring mission and rescue their friend Darlington, whose soul was sucked into the abyss in Bardugo’s previous book, the best-selling “ Ninth House,” and whose body is now inhabited by a particularly nasty demon. Searching for a portal to the underworld at Yale University, the magically inclined characters of Leigh Bardugo’s “Hell Bent” naturally think of Sterling Memorial Library, a Gothic temple to learning (and to hell, it turns out) that looms in the middle of campus. ![]()
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