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> Tag: Naomi novik

Two people with a hero complex off to save the school

The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

February 19, 2022 by Dinah Lord Leave a Comment

This is the second book in the Scholomance trilogy: the first, A Deadly Education, told El’s story in the last three weeks of her junior year at the school of magic, the Scholomance, and how her efforts and those of her friends have, she hopes, helped most of the seniors graduate without significant casualties. This second book covers El’s senior year, starting off with what El considers the worst possible assignment: her study hall as the sole senior in a classroom of young, inexperienced freshmen. […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Death, first-person narrator, Naomi novik, the scholomance, weird creatures, witchcraft and wizardry

Dinah Lord's CBR14 Review No:9 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Death, first-person narrator, Naomi novik, the scholomance, weird creatures, witchcraft and wizardry ·
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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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In other books that I loved a lot this year

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

December 30, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Re-read (September 2021) in advance of The Last Graduate!!! it’s interesting, I think the book on the whole is a 4* book but reads a lot like a 3* book from a writing style? Reading this a second time, I’m less confused about the various plot points but it’s still a lot of exposition that you have to chew through, all within El’s head. I think the part that tips it into 4* territory is that the exposition in El’s head is next-level–I read a lot […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Naomi novik, re-read, scholomance

wicherwill's CBR13 Review No:202 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Naomi novik, re-read, scholomance ·
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“Mum spent a lot of time in my formative years gently reminding me that people don’t think about us nearly as much as we think they do, because they’re all busy worrying what people are thinking about them.” 

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

December 9, 2021 by scootsa1000 5 Comments

Imagine a high school that has zero teachers or staff, just students trying to learn and advance. When you show up the first day of freshman year you don’t leave until graduation day senior year. All you have with you is what you had in your pockets or even in your mouth — No suitcases or trunks. It’s a school of magic, but not like Hogwarts or Watford. And that school is actively trying to kill you. This is the world that our “heroine,” El […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: a deadly education, CBR13, Naomi novik, scholomance, Scootsa1000, the last graduate

scootsa1000's CBR13 Review No:18 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: a deadly education, CBR13, Naomi novik, scholomance, Scootsa1000, the last graduate ·
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“It’s not because–they don’t want me. They want someone who’s going to cast death spells on their enemies. And if I gave them that, I wouldn’t be me anymore, so I might as well not go live with a bag of dicks.”

The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

November 30, 2021 by Dome'Loki 3 Comments

Picking up immediately after the end of A Deadly Education, The Last Graduate is a gripping read that starts with El holding the cryptic note from her Mum and ends on a terrific cliffhanger.  At one of Novik’s events for the book release she did apologize for both books one and two ending on a cliffhanger.  When she set out to write A Deadly Education she envisioned it ending where The Last Graduate does.  Novik is a writes as she goes author, not a big outliner/planner.  While […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, CBR13, Dome'Loki, Fiction, magic, magic school, Naomi novik, the scholomance, YA

Dome'Loki's CBR13 Review No:37 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, CBR13, Dome'Loki, Fiction, magic, magic school, Naomi novik, the scholomance, YA ·
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“I could never afford to look past survival, especially not for anything as insanely expensive as happiness, and I don’t believe in it anyway.”

The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2) by Naomi Novik

November 3, 2021 by narfna 10 Comments

Yet another great book I’ve read this year that I really just do not want to write a review for, because it means having to find the words and think thoughts and all that stuff. I always have the most trouble with books I love and give five stars to. It’s always like, HOW DO I CONVEY THIS FEELING which morphs into I DON’T EVEN WANT TO TRY with some whining in there for good measure. I really liked the first book in this series […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, dark academia, horror, Naomi novik, narfna, the last graduate, the scholomance, ya fantasy, Young Adult

narfna's CBR13 Review No:169 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, dark academia, horror, Naomi novik, narfna, the last graduate, the scholomance, ya fantasy, Young Adult ·
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