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Alex Stern
Series · 3 books · 2019-2023

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#1

Ninth House

2019

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. By age twenty, in fact, 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 elite universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her? Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive.
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幽靈社團 上

2019

亞麗絲・史坦,生長於洛杉磯的貧困地區,不但從未見過父親,母親也過度沉迷性靈的世界。童年悲慘的她早早就輟學、離家出走,跟著毒販男友幹些骯髒勾當。然而,在二十歲那年,亞麗絲成為一起血腥凶案唯一的倖存者,在多具面目全非的屍體中,只有她毫髮無傷。更意外的是,她得到了改頭換面的機會:有人提供全額獎學金,邀請她進入數一數二的耶魯大學。 但代價是什麼?為什麼非她不可?儘管抱持著疑問,亞麗絲毅然揮別過往,成為耶魯新鮮人。她的任務是:監督耶魯八大祕密社團,避免社員濫用魔法,並加入不為人知的第九社團「忘川會」,成為學長達令頓的「但丁」。然而,平靜的日子並未持續太久,詭異事件接踵而至。先是達令頓人間蒸發,而大學城裡一名女孩被殘忍殺害,種種跡象都暗示,與祕密社團脫不了關係。 亞麗絲決心要追尋真相,但當謎團被層層揭露,八大社團的祕密浮出水面,亞麗絲也因而惹來殺身之禍,甚至驚動「另一邊」的世界。一場驚心動魄的魔法風暴,即將席捲這座古老的大學城……
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Hell Bent

2023

Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell in #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo's Hell Bent. 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.

Authors

莉·巴度格
Author · 1 books

巴度格是紐約時報暢銷奇幻小說作家,格里沙世界的創造者。 她生於耶路撒冷,在洛杉磯成長,畢業於耶魯大學,曾於廣告業、新聞業,甚至特效化妝產業工作。最近住在好萊塢從事寫作,時不時能在那裡聽到她和她的樂團一同演出。 巴度格開始創作長篇小說《太陽召喚》時剛歷經喪父之痛,感情也非常不順,正處於人生空前低谷。她也剛好辭了穩定的工作轉行當化妝師,在幫演員與模特兒化妝時,這個故事逐漸在她腦中成形。這不是巴度格第一次提筆,但過去總是半途而廢,所以她以「寫完這本小說」作為目標,完成這個故事。而在這個格里沙世界諸多角色中,「塑形者」能力即是反映了她在現實的化妝師工作經驗。 這個故事成了轟動全球的暢銷書,連同兩本續集構成《太陽召喚》三部曲,以王道的神選之人冒險、新穎的俄羅斯風世界觀,還有必備的三角虐戀,讓巴度格站穩新生代奇幻作家的位置。然而巴度格不想要重複自己,她每部作品都有新的文化元素、也試圖對類型套路進行拆解和顛覆。在第一人稱的《太陽召喚》後,在同一個世界觀下用多視角講述了《烏鴉六人組》的故事,也更深入表達她對多元議題的關心與包容。她的格里沙世界含括了《格里沙三部曲》、《烏鴉六人組二部曲》及《傷痕之王二部曲》(King of Scars)等,其餘作品則有《神力女超人:戰爭使者》及《幽靈社團》。 《太陽召喚》與《烏鴉六人組》皆在紐約時報排行榜取得了好成績,也在goodreads等書評網站上獲得讀者好評。Netflix更相中「格里沙世界」的可能性,邀請巴度格加入主創團隊,共同改編了「格里沙三部曲」與「烏鴉六人組」的故事,打造出強檔影集「太陽召喚」。

Leigh Bardugo
Leigh Bardugo
Author · 44 books

Leigh Bardugo is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House and the creator of the Grishaverse (now a Netflix original series) which spans the Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows duology, the King of Scars duology—and much more. Her short fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. She lives in Los Angeles and is an associate fellow of Pauli Murray College at Yale University. For information on new releases and appearances, sign up for her newsletter. She would be delighted if you visited her at LeighBardugo.com and fairly giddy if you liked her selfies on Instagram.

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