Beenish’s Reviews > Ninth House > Status Update

people who can’t be bothered with manners pretend to be amused by them.

There were no bookshelves, only stacks and stacks of books piled at varying heights, as if he had been in the process of walling himself in with colored bricks.

Don’t tell me you haven’t read the file.”
“I have. I want to know how you survived.”
Alex rubbed her thumb over the edge of the windowsill. “So do I.”