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“My inner being is exceptionally cranky and I often don’t want her company myself.”

The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

February 13, 2023 by Malin 3 Comments

CBR Passport Challenge: Books Recommended by Friends This is the second book in a trilogy. It doesn’t really make sense if you’ve not read the series from the beginning. So if you’re not caught up, go read A Deadly Education. It’s great, I’ll wait. El and Orion are now seniors in the Scholomance, and they have absolutely no way of knowing if their very dangerous mission just before graduation to fix the furnaces worked. Did they manage to clear the graduation hall of the majority […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: adventure, CBR15, CBR15Passport, friendship, LGBTQIA, magic, Malin, monsters, Naomi novik, paranormal fantasy, romantic, the last graduate, the scholomance, Young Adult

Malin's CBR15 Review No:7 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: adventure, CBR15, CBR15Passport, friendship, LGBTQIA, magic, Malin, monsters, Naomi novik, paranormal fantasy, romantic, the last graduate, the scholomance, Young Adult ·
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This ending made me love the series more.

The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3) by Naomi Novik

December 30, 2022 by narfna 5 Comments

This was such a great series, and this book a great ending to it. I feel like I was waiting for sure to say that until I finished this book, and now I can say with certainty that The Scholomance is worth reading. It all just comes together SO WELL. I was happy with the story on the surface, I was happy with the characters and their arcs, and I was happy with what is going on underneath. This one picks up exactly where we […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, Naomi novik, narfna, The Golden Enclaves, the scholomance, ya fantasy, Young Adult

narfna's CBR14 Review No:249 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, Naomi novik, narfna, The Golden Enclaves, the scholomance, ya fantasy, Young Adult ·
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Re-reads in anticipation of the last–Scholomance delivers

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

December 30, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Re-re-read in advance of The Golden Enclaves, September 2022 Knowing now what I know about how this book is actually a semi-subversive (and by which I mean not at all subversive, was I just under a rock this whole while?) pushback on JKR’s Wizarding World(TM), it’s doubly fascinating to re-re-enter the world of the Scholomance through the eyes of El, our crotchety crocheting evil enchantress in the making. I had read once that Novik wrote Scholomance in a response to the logical inconsistencies of the Potterverse, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Naomi novik, the scholomance

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:135 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Naomi novik, the scholomance ·
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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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“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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