Ninth House

My non-work-related reading this week was Leigh Bardugo’s hit NINTH HOUSE, a fantasy novel set in the exclusive world of Yale’s secret societies. The book proposes the idea that secret societies like Skull & Bones actually conduct magical rituals every month to facilitate the success of their alumni (a spell to inspire writers’ next tomes; reading the intestines of a corpse to predict the stock market… the usual). The magic Bardugo has created is incredibly specific and inventive; it made the entire book feel much more grounded, even as ghosts and demons began to appear. I’d definitely recommend the book for both fantasy-lovers and conspiracy theory / secret society-lover—something for everyone! 

—Julia Hammer, Creative Exec