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Bardugo hell bent7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() She’ll have to do so without the backing of Lethe or any of the other societies, all of which firmly believe that Darlington died - or worse, was transformed into a demon.Īlex is forced to rely on the few allies she has to find the Gauntlet and rescue Darlington. Convinced that Darlington survived the demon attack, Alex hatches a plan to drag him back from the depths of hell by finding the Gauntlet, a portal to hell constructed by Yale students during the Great Depression. Bardugo was anything but kind to Alex in “Ninth House,” and “Hell Bent” is no different, finding Alex once again desperate and out of her depth. “Hell Bent,” the next book in the series, picks up three months after “Ninth House” concluded. Then, about halfway through her first year, Darlington gets dragged away to hell by a demon. In between observing rituals and struggling through midterm exams, Alex gets drawn into a murder investigation - one with eerie similarities to traumatic events in her past life in California - that unearths a conspiracy involving members of the societies and Lethe. ![]() Throughout the first book, Alex struggles to adjust to her freshman year at Yale while being shown the ropes at Lethe by her mentor: lonely rich boy Darlington. ![]()
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