Hell Bent
- 544
- Pages
- about 10 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 1 week on the list, peaked at #5
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About the book
Goodreads Choice Award Winner "A tour de force of suspenseful pacing and empathetic writing." ―The New York Times "All hail the queen of dark academia!" ―NPR 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. 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.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 590 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 80% of the weight and the score stays at 8.0 — the Fantasy average of 8.0 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.3 | 12 | 2% |
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 578 | 98% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“4.5/5 TW: Chapter 43 is vital to the plot, but contains tragic animal death. If you’re like me and have a past with this, you may want to skim some of the descriptions, or have someone summarize that chapter or tell you when you can…”
“give me Darlington or give me death Edit: Vastly different from Ninth House, but I had a really good time reading it. I love the characters much more than I did in book one, and the new plot was really engaging!”
Frequently asked
How long is Hell Bent?
It has 544 pages — longer than 53% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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