This one has some mixed reviews, but I LOVED it! And the narrator was amazing which is always a bonus.
Gideon has always wanted to escape from the ninth, but now she is cavalier to her enemy, the reverend daughter, necromancer and heir to the ninth. The emperor has called on each of the houses to come to the first house for a trial of wits and skill to become his immortal hands. But the process is even deadlier than they imagined.