#the alex stern series

[drklyritu]

the devil knows your name now, galaxy stern

stop, why is this so hot omfg-

#the alex stern series #alex stern #alex x darlington #darlington #hell bent leigh bardugo #hellbent #hell #hell bent #fuckin hell #hell bent and ninth house #ninth house series #ninth house #ninth house leigh bardugo #galaxy stern #booklr #booktok

[wingedshadowfan]

um. hell bent (ninth house sequel) spoilers ahead.

darlington has implied anger issues, alcohol problems, a dirty mind, insatiable curiosity, a hyperfixation on the arcane, he's a murderer and he doesn't regret it - he's basically always sinned. he's always been a little bad.

it's not that only now that he's part-demon he has to wrestle with this ominous darker being that's lurking inside him. it's always been a part of him (part of every human being i'd like to argue), he's just been able to shut it out, control it better, compartmentalize (as one does), and now he has no choice but to let it free, free himself from his own inhibitions

But as he was not quite human any longer, he supposed a more flexible approach to morality was called for.

he's intelligent enough to realize he basically has to learn to deal with the fact that he's now powerless to the urges of his own demons, pun intended

this is what i want to see in a future book, not him struggling to hold back or trying to school himself into an image of goodness and perfection, because he's always done that! i want him to let go, absolutely lose it and be unapologetically unhinged and sinister, kind of like how alex is but worse

#ninth house #ninth house spoilers #hell bent spoilers #hell bent #hellbent #leigh bardugo books #leigh bardugo #alex stern series #alex stern #galaxy stern #darlington #daniel arlington #daniel tabor arlington v #golden boy of lethe #gentleman demon #gentleman of lethe #darlingstern

[tough-n-dumb]

when alex calls darlington danny when trying to bring his soul home from hell. when darlington calls alex galaxy when saying he’s been crying out to her from the start. when we’re told over and over again the importance of the bond we form through names. that’s all

#listen #AAHHH #that’s all just listen to me scream #darlingstern #ninth house #hell bent #alex stern series

[malinaa]

[crawls out of book 2 bloodied and weary] maybe in book 3 darlingstern can fuck

#lit #alex stern series #hell bent #hell bent spoilers #darlingstern #text #tais toi lys #*

[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.

#alex stern #darlingstern #darlington #leigh bardugo #ninth house #hell bent #alex stern series #galaxy stern #pamela dawes #tripp helmuth #detective Abel turner #lethe house

[msbrightsides]

Hell Bent spoilers:

Does anyone else think about that scene where Alex pretends Darlington just got back from Spain in front of the new Praetor? How she cried and flew into his arms and he was almost too surprised to hug her back? How that was the only time they’ve ever hugged? How Alex felt how warm his hand was on the small of her back? Bc as much as the other scenes are great, that’s the one I keep coming back to

#ninth house #hell bent spoilers #hell bent #alex stern series #alex stern #galaxy stern #alex x darlington #darlington×alex #darlington #darlingstern #pamela dawes #abel turner #mercy zhao #tripp helmuth

[thegremlingirl]

"Come on, Darlington...let's give them hell."

(Hell Bent, 2023)

#ninth house #hell bent #moodboard #alex stern #darlington #darlingstern #dark academia #leigh bardugo #sorry if anyone follows me specifically for little thieves i have ninth house on my mind #i never really get into a lot of things enough for me to make things about them #and ngl moodboards are prettyyyy low effort but im proud of this one and the photo editing i did i think its very sexy #but yeah...always thinkin about them #book 3 when #series adaptation when #a horrible girl and the stuffy adademic she torments is obviously my favorite ship dynamic

[hurbarts]

i have serious hell bent withdrawals and i just love galaxy alex stern so so much

#ninth house #hell bent #alex stern #alex stern series #hurbarts*

[jadedbug]

does this make sense

#everyone whos read (or in the case of TMA listening) tap it #the raven cycle #the magnus archives #alex stern #the locked tomb #the secret history #ninth house #hell bent #trc #tma #tlt series #the locked tomb series #tsh #galaxy stern #galaxy stern series #my literary thesis is that all of the x axis books (plus the gold finch ofc) exist in the same universe #this is includes the dreamer series too i just haven’t read that yet #rio you saw this first

[katehflynn]

alex: *has a sad thought*

darlington, immediately waking up from a deep slumber: something’s wrong.

#this absolutely goes both ways #mine. #darlingstern #darlington x alex #alex x darlington #danny x alex #alex x danny #ninth house #hell bent #gentlemen demon #wheelwalker #leigh bardugo #alex stern series #alex stern #galaxy stern #daniel arlington #darlington

[andreai04]

“That was the problem with love. It was hard to unlearn, no matter how harsh the lesson.”

#reading #books #books read in 2023 #bookblr #book photography #book blog #bibliophile #books reading #books and reading #hell bent #ninth house #alex stern #alex stern series #leigh bardugo #galaxy stern #hell #demons #darlington #darlington finally came back #pamela dawes #tripp helmuth #tripp is my fav character #he’s so dopey and funny #that part at the end where he’s like i really want to eat you #and alex goes i know buddy #god that killed me #review #three stars #not as good as ninth house #december reads

[wingedshadowfan]

Darlington had never gotten used to it. He doubted he ever would—the urge to gag, the bitter spike that drove through his soft palate and up into the back of his skull.

“Fuck,” he gasped.

Alex blinked. “I think that’s the first time I’ve heard you swear.”

Chills shook him and he tried to control the tremors that quaked through his body.

“I c-c-class p-p-profanity with declarations of love. Best used sparingly and only when wholeheartedly m-m-meant.”

i had actually forgotten this part, kind of a chekov's gun, isn't it? i can't wait for him to either swear again or declare his love now

#ninth house #ninth house spoilers #alex stern #galaxy stern #alex stern series #leigh bardugo books #leigh bardugo #darlington #daniel arlington #daniel tabor arlington v #golden boy of lethe #gentleman of lethe #hell bent #gentleman demon

[tough-n-dumb]

leigh bardugo slow burn… save me..

leigh bardugo slow burn

save me leigh bardugo slow burn

#losing my mind can u tell? #six of crows #kanej #ninth house #alex stern series #darlingstern #king of scars #zoyalai #yes i’m counting zoyalai even tho they are fully burned #help. the brain rot. help.

[malinaa]

i love fictional characters who’ve been dead since the beginning but clawed their way back towards the living

#darlington #richard gansey #<- they r the same. to ME #lit #the raven cycle #alex stern series #text #tais toi lys #this is different than fictional characters who are dead since the beginning but are alive AND dead (alice palmer abigail Hobbs type beat) #*

[one-hell-of-otaku-is-here]

Sometimes I think about all of my dark academia (both books and movies) characters interacting with each other... they are almost all murderers and need therapy... I love chaos which would ensue

#the secret history #if we were villains #school ties #havent read bunny yet but i plan to #villains series #ANY sherlock holmes series really #like minds 2006 #alex stern series #hell bent #ninth house #skulls #brideshead revisited #the dreamers 2003 #oxford murders #talented mr ripley #black swan #maurice #the picture of dorian gray #sherlock holmes #dead poets society #bunny #good will hunting #the goldfinch #kill your darlings #the queen's gambit #the riot club #mary shelly 2017 #the imitation game #mona lisa smile #picnic at hanging rock

[msbrightsides]

#polls #juliette cai #these violent delights #chloe gong #percy jackson #pjo #annabeth chase #percy jackson and the olympians #twitter #nesta archeron #acotar #aelin galathynius #throne of glass #emma carstairs #the dark artifices #tda #alex stern series #alex stern #galaxy stern #jude duarte #the cruel prince #tcp #tfota #the folk of the air #bookblr #bookblr memes #book tok #booktok #readblr #reading