Ninth House

That it could be.

Oh, that's – you know what? I got that feeling while reading the Ninth House series by Leigh Barton because it's so tied to reality and it's, yes, similar with The Vicious and Vengeful.

Yeah, Victorious.

It's just like – wait like did i just read a

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Um, but Deadbeat by Leigh Bardugo, which I also read in about a 48-hour, maybe 36-hour, uh, span, is the third in The Ninth House trilogy.

So I've talked about The Ninth House trilogy before.

Deadbeat was on my hype meter, uh, that we did, uh, last month, but, or in August rather.

Yeah, but it's set in a magical Yale, and the p- the premise of this series is, like, what if The Da Vinci Code or National Treasure were actually smart? Um, sorry to Dan Brown, not sorry.

Then came a breakthrough when she was at her lowest, which led to her debut, Shadow and Bone.

Later, Lee mined her Ivy League college experience for Ninth House, her first adult series, which is concluding with Deadbeat out this month.

Join us as we talk about getting lost in worlds, wrapping up series, and why discomfort is a necessary part of creativity.

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is the right advice because, okay, so anyways, so you started writing for adults.

So Ninth House shocked people.

And Ninth House is dark.

This book came out in 2019.

I have Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo.

But the third book in the trilogy, The Completion, Deadbeat.

I have her sitting over here, and I'm so excited to jump into this because this series is peak fall vibes.

It's still so freaking good.

But to experience Deadbeat in the fall as it's meant to be, This book is set on the Yale College campus, and we follow the secret societies that are doing some weird, messed-up magic shit.

And also, our main character, Alex Stern... um she's got some witchy witchy business going on that only grows and gets better like i'm so excited for deadbeat to see her fully like powered up knowing what she's doing like the jump from ninth house to deadbeat is insane and you guys all need to pick it up specifically payton i've been begging her every single week

you have no idea this damn

I want to read it so bad.

And then another new release that comes out in just three days is the third book in the Ninth House series by Leigh Bardugo, and it's called Deadbeat.

I am not obsessed with this series.

I feel like I haven't been obsessed with a book series in a really long time, but it's a really good book series.

I picked up Ninth House because it was recommended at the time for dark academia novels, and I was very into the dark academia aesthetic and vibe for a little while, so I was reading a lot of those books that were lumped in into that aesthetic.

And this book was so good.

I love main characters who are just They're not quite likable.