#Pamela Dawes

[remusfinglupin]

Sometimes family is a gentleman demon, a galaxy who can see ghosts, an anxious research assistant, a well-dressed detective, and the human embodiment of a golden retriever

[artsychanel]

hey guys imagine my surprise when i finished reading ninth house and there were NO fanarts of them.... they’re so cuteee

could not care less about darlington when reading hellbent

don’t mess with the alex x dawes fandom we are a total of 3 people!! (or less)😡😡 

[butchcaseyjones]

i love the ninth house fanart where dawes looks beautiful and put together but cmon. look me in the eyes. she's got debilitating anxiety, can't talk to people, and has been writing the same dissertation for six years. this is how i pictured her for the entire book (affectionate)

[cherisheachother]

hell bent plot summary

[slightlysadfilter]

There is something so comforting about Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, despite the abundance of trauma, gore and eerie stuff.

Take Il Bastone; the existence itself of a sentient house that worries about you, in a world where magic is grotesque and raw.

Dawes's warming meals.

The architecture! The beauty of New Haven, the art.

For how fucked it is, you never see Alex complaining because she has met worse. Because even among demons, and bloody rituals, and uptight professors, she's at least surrounded by beauty and comfort. That same feeling passes unto the readers, it truly is magical to read Ninth House.

[academtits]

I love how Alex could have literally crossed the circle and yanked Darlington out of hell no problem, but instead the gang takes the long way, twice, as some demented team-building, trauma-bonding exercise.

[the-midnightwriter]

I just want to give Daniel Tabor Arlington V a hug. Please let me hug you, you, knowledgeable traumatized demon man. Poor boy has been through so much, and no one has given him a hug. Genuinely want to see this man happy I'm over here like

Get behind me, Danny🤺

[i-can-stab-you-in-the-eye]

“Galaxy Stern,” Darlington said, his eyes flashing gold,

“I have been crying out to you from the start.”

[caprifiles]

“dawes doesn’t like me.” “dawes doesn’t like anyone.”

[lullabycures]

pamela dawes is very aroace to me

[remusfinglupin]

Alex: We all have our demons.

Alex, grabbing Darlington: This one’s mine.

[bookloverturnedfangirl]

Leigh Bardugo really went it’s not enough that they’re Dante and Virgil, they’re Orpheus and Eurydice as well?!??

[corvidcrowned]

Still thinking abt how I wanna draw them but <3 read a book recently

[inthefaceofadaffodil]

Dawes and Alex walking in on Darlington

[slightlysadfilter]

The fact that there are people out there who don't like Ninth House is so baffling to me because I'm such a picky reader, and yet this book wrecked my life, I'm telling you

One of the best prose I've ever encountered, and yes, the story was messy at first but not so messier than many other fantasy books I read. I found it more engaging than a detailed, list-like wordlbuilding explanation that seems to be more common. Or even when they try to scatter it, it still comes off as "let's get the worldbuilding done with" and that's not something I found here, and I thought it clever and enthralling. I actually enjoyed deciphering the many quotes, mentions and foreshadowing. That's why I read it twice.

I was also surprised to find many people don't like Alex as a character. That's genuinely the most surprising one to me. She's such a complex, strong and intelligent woman! And she's an antihero, which I always enjoy.

Lastly, many people complained about the slow burn being too slow. This one annoys me a little. If you want your characters to get together within 300 pages, that's not a slow burn. If you don't want the tiny details, the tension, the "almosts", it's not a slow burn.

[academtits]

“So, who’s ready to go to hell?”

(Images from Pinterest)