Friday, November 13, 2026
Dead Beat by Leigh Bardugo closes the Ninth House trilogy with demons loose in New Haven and Alex Stern racing to shut the door she left open. A dark fantasy and dark academia finale with a mystery at its center, best read after the earlier books.
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