From an absolutely selfish person, she turned into a hero. All because we see them through El’s eyes, and El has grown as a character a lot. What I really love about Scholamance is the character development! And not just of the main characters but all of them, even the ones we just met one time. “You’re the only right thing I’ve ever wanted.” I adored their interactions in the previous book but here it progressed 1000000000000 times and I tell ‘ya people, this is how a slow-burn romance should be done! I suppose we could compare the info dump to an attack of a horde of mals.Įl and Orion are two cherries on top of the cake story. I think it’s the biggest minus of this series: we are given too much information and don’t have enough brain capacity to process it. El is a great and snarky narrator but sometimes it is sooo very hard to grasp all the things she’s talking about. To say this book was a rollercoaster is to say nothing! As usual when you dive into this series, you are thrown right into a massive info dump. New alliances are built, old ones are destroyed, and the school’s mechanism is silently turning, counting the last days. A lot has changed since the previous year. In this installment of The Scholomance we are thrown back right into the chaos of El, Orion, and other kids facing their senior year. My initial thoughts right after finishing The Last Graduate: Until El realizes that sometimes winning the game means throwing out all the rules. El is determined that her chosen group will survive, but it is a prospect that is looking harder by the day as the savagery of the school ramps up.

Published September 28th 2021 by Del Rey Books Annotation:Ī budding dark sorceress determined not to use her formidable powers uncovers yet more secrets about the workings of her world in the stunning sequel to A Deadly Education, the start of Naomi Novik’s groundbreaking crossover series.Īt the Scholomance, El, Orion, and the other students are faced with their final year–and the looming specter of graduation, a deadly ritual that leaves few students alive in its wake.

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