#alex stern
It seems to me that the best books are those that you re-read and find something new in them every time.
I recently saw a review on the Ninth House, where a girl wrote that she barely read the book to the middle, because events jump too quickly between the past and the present, and she did not understand what was happening. I remembered that when I read this book, I also didn’t understand a lot of things and got confused, so as soon as I finished reading, I started reading from the beginning, already knowing who is who and where it all will lead. Since then, I have read the book more than thirty times (in whole or piecewise), but I still find things and details that I did not pay attention to.
There is something indescribably beautiful when you read a book and look at a character in a new way. You remember: “When I read for the first time, I decided that he was a show off and an egoist.” And now you have already read all the chapters from his POV, learned about his past and now you understand that he is just a lonely person who survives in this world in his own way.
The most interesting thing with such rereading is to read from “another character”. I don’t mean when the chapter is told from the point of view of one character’s feelings and thoughts. Try reading the same chapter, but focusing on the character the hero is interacting with. What could he be thinking at that moment? Did he really do it this way, and not otherwise, because he is arrogant, or is it all about something else? When I first read The Ninth House, I was a bit brainwashed by the “two Darlingtons”: the chapters from the perspective of Darlington were very different from how he was presented in Alex’s memoirs. Rereading the book, I realized how wrong Alex had thought about him. The stinging thoughts of the girl that Darlington was bathing in luxury were so strong that I forgot that in fact he had rather modest savings. He is not a boy who gets everything he wants. He is a boy who survived by hard work and suffering, but raised as a gentleman by his grandfather.
A good book is a book that never ceases to amaze you. This is a book that leaves behind a thousand questions - but at the same time contains almost all the answers, if you can find them.
cast lizeth selene as alex stern she looks exactly like her??? ALSO SHE HAS TATTOOS JUST LIKE ALEX I-
darlington when he meets with alex in hell:
broke:alex’s last name is stern because she is half jewish and it also matches “galaxy”
woke:alex’s last name is stern (stern = star) because she is a descendant of lucifer the fallen star/angel “the morningstar” and that’s why she can communicate and see the grays.
no because i can picture alex stern exactly like this when meeting darlington in hell
“I let you die. To save myself, I let you die.
That is the danger in keeping company with survivors.”
-Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo
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N I N T H H O U S E
Peace was like any high. It couldn’t last. It was an illusion, something that could be interrupted in a moment and lost forever. Only two things kept you safe:money and power.
N I N T H H O U S E
by Leigh Bardugo
We are the shepherds. The time for that was done. Better to be a rattler. Better to be a jackal.
Sure there are the two obvious scenes (the party and the bed-scene) that can make people ship them because of the sexual chemistry, but that’s the least interesting thing about them.
Alex and Darlington are a very unlikely tean-up. Lethe forces them upon each-other. He would have never chosen someone who’s such a wildcard and at first he appears to be like the privileged guys that she disapproves of.
Alex is the underdog but she is the one who has the poweful magic without trying. Darlington has to put a lot of effort into it.
They are both addicts. Alex was because she wanted to limit the effect of her abilities as opposed to Darlington who kept risking himself in order to see the dead.
Through being around Alex, Darlington starts being a little more spontaneous. Alex on the other hand carries his teachings with her and draws strength from him to help those who need it.
Both of them are ready to betray each other when they part. They don’t have the time to do so, but Darlington’s first instinct is to talk to Dean Sandow and Alex’s first instinct is to save herself.
I’m barely scratching the surface here, but there are so many parallels between the two and the writing is impecable.
Guess what is FINALLY getting released in January 2023?!
The sequel to “Ninth House!”
Written by Leigh Bardugo, “Hell Bent,” is the continuation of Alex Stern’s journey to get Darlington out of Hell.
January 2023 needs to come fast because I want to see how Alex tries to save Darlington.
When I first listened to Ninth House, this scene just screamed at me. I needed to see it rendered and I went a bit farther with the details than I originally intended - the atmosphere just needed to be accentuated to attempt at doing any justice to the scene!
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