From the leading talent in fantasy, a magical coming-of-age trilogy with a hilarious female anti-hero – a darker more intelligent Harry Potter for adults.
In the start of an all-new series, the bestselling author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver introduces you to a dangerous school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death – until one girl begins to rewrite its rules.
Enter school of magic unlike any you have ever encountered.
There are no teachers, no holidays, friendships are purely strategic, and the odds of survival are never equal.
Once you’re inside, there are only two ways out: you graduate or you die.
El Higgins is uniquely prepared for the school’s many dangers. She may be without allies, but she possesses a dark power strong enough to level mountains and wipe out untold millions – never mind easily destroy the countless monsters that prowl the school.
Except, she might accidentally kill all the other students, too. So El is trying her hardest not to use it… that is, unless she has no other choice.
Wry, witty, endlessly inventive, and mordantly funny – yet with a true depth and fierce justice at its heart – this enchanting novel reminds us that there are far more important things than mere survival.
Review of A Deadly Education: Lesson 1 of the Scholomance
Naomi Novik
Del Rey
Supplied by Penguin Random House New Zealand
Reviewed by Maree Pavletich
This is not Hogwarts. If your class experiment isn’t done on time it animates and comes after you. It’s a very solid teaching technique. Basically you graduate or die trying. El Higgins should be fine with it, she has an affinity for dark magic and mass destruction but she doesn’t particularly want to wipe the school and all the students off the face of the earth. No matter how annoying some can be, especially the ones trying to poison her or date her. And would that guy Orion please stop saving her life? She is perfectly capable of doing that herself. El is determined to survive but she may have to make friends with people she cannot trust or stand, maybe. This sets up the next books. El is a little whiny but you still want to follow her story.
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