Ninth House

The amount of time I spent unaware that Lethe was not a ~Society~ but actually the equivalent of Campus Cops is embarrassing.
But oh did I really enjoy that! It took a while to pick up - about 160 pages, in fact. But when it did I was so there for it. And I can't for the life of me figure out if I ship Dawes&Alex or Alex&Darlington. I think I'm leaning towards Dawes, but whenever I think that my mind goes “but Darlington will serve her forever!” So yeah. Pretty ambivalent. Maybe the second book will make my feelings clearer. 
The end goes full on magic, to the point that I do wish the book was a bit more contained in that manor. This is why it's not rated closer to five.