內容簡介
內容簡介 暗黑奇幻天后李‧芭度葛繼《格里莎三部曲》《烏鴉六人幫》推出最新奇幻大作 一個關於特權、黑魔法和謀殺的明爭暗鬥故事,全都發生在菁英遍佈的耶魯校園 史蒂芬‧金、列夫‧葛羅斯曼、凱麗‧林克、喬‧希爾、莎蓮‧哈里斯一致好評推薦 Alex Stern和耶魯校園中的其他新生一點也不同。從小住在洛杉磯並由嬉皮母親扶養,Alex早早就輟學並和毒販男友交往,做著沒有前途的工作,過著永無天日的生活。事實上,20歲時她是一場未破案的多重謀殺案中的唯一倖存者。重生的她決定給自己一個新的機會,進入全世界的一級學府,到底謀殺背後的內幕是什麼,為什麼兇手選擇了她? 仍在尋求真相的她,決定暗中觀察學校中的秘密社團。社團中全是有錢有權的知名人士,包括政治家和足以影響華爾街的權力人士,但社團中進行的活動卻是難以想像的邪惡。他們竄改禁止使用的黑魔法、召喚亡者,甚至有時還獵捕活人。到底Alex 是否能從邪惡的陰謀中全身而退,力抗強權找出幕後真兇? Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she's thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world's most prestigious universities on a full ride. What's the catch, and why her? Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale's secret societies. Their eight windowless “tombs” are the well-known haunts of the rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street's biggest players. But their occult activities are more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. They tamper with forbidden magic. They raise the dead. And, sometimes, they prey on the living. Ninth House is the long-awaited adult debut by the beloved author of Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows. Leigh Bardugo will take her place alongside Lev Grossman and Deborah Harkness as one of the finest practitioners of literary fantasy writing today.
作者介紹
作者介紹 Leigh Bardugo is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of fantasy novels and the creator of the Grishaverse. With over 3 million copies sold worldwide, her Grishaverse spans the Shadow and Bone Trilogy, the Six of Crows Duology, The Language of Thorns, King of Scars—with more to come. Her other works include Wonder Woman: Warbringer and short stories that have appeared in The Best of Tor.com and the Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy. She lives in Los Angeles.