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UK Penguin cover of A Deadly Education

Help! This school is trying to kill me

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

February 7, 2022 by Dinah Lord 1 Comment

El (short for Galadriel) is a trying-to-be-good wizard whose powers seem much more designed to go very big and very bad: there’s even a prophecy about her. She’s a pupil at the Scholomance, in her junior year, desperately trying to stay alive through the unusual challenges being a wizard entails, and gain sufficient alliances with her fellow pupils that she’ll (a) be able to graduate (which means getting out alive from the Scholomance), and (b) get a place in a magical enclave, and not have […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: dark magic, eldritch creatures, Naomi novik, school of magic, violence

Dinah Lord's CBR14 Review No:6 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: dark magic, eldritch creatures, Naomi novik, school of magic, violence ·
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I always feel like a chump for having zero magical powers when clearly the world is full of magicians and superpowered beings!

June 28, 2016 by borisanne 5 Comments

The Everything Box is superfun! I added it to my library queue after some happy Cannonball Read reviews, and am so glad I did. I read almost this entire book in one sitting. I would best describe this as Neil Gaiman Lite, which is NOT a criticism. There is a richness missing that would make it a full Gaiman experience, but sometimes you don’t need the bone marrow spread on top of the rib-eye on top of cheesy polenta. Sometimes you just want a salad […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #Gaiman, angels, apocalypse, cults, dark magic, demons, government, los angeles, magic, mind clouding, Neil Gaiman, thief, vampires, werewolves

borisanne's CBR8 Review No:25 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #Gaiman, angels, apocalypse, cults, dark magic, demons, government, los angeles, magic, mind clouding, Neil Gaiman, thief, vampires, werewolves ·
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