With keen insight and mordant humor, Novik reminds us that sometimes it is not enough to rewrite the rules-sometimes, you need to toss out the entire rulebook. I’m going to get myself and my friends out of this hideous place for good-even if it’s the last thing I do.

The course of wisdom, surely.īut I’m not giving in-not to the mals, not to fate, and especially not to the Scholomance. That would certainly let me sail straight out of here. Unless, of course, I finally accept my foretold destiny of dark sorcery and destruction. And even if I somehow make it through the endless waves of maleficaria that it keeps throwing at me in between grueling homework assignments, I haven’t any idea how my allies and I are going to make it through the graduation hall alive. Our beloved school does its best to devour all its students-but now that I’ve reached my senior year and have actually won myself a handful of allies, it’s suddenly developed a very particular craving for me. I suppose you could even argue that it’s true-only the wisdom is hard to come by, so the shelter’s rather scant. That’s the official motto of the Scholomance. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Polygon, Thrillist, She Reads.She is a founder of the Organization for Transformative Works and the Archive of Our Own. “The climactic graduation-day battle will bring cheers, tears, and gasps as the second of the Scholomance trilogy closes with a breathtaking cliff-hanger.”- Booklist (starred review) Naomi Novik is the New York Times bestselling author of A Deadly Education, The Last Graduate, and The Golden Enclaves, the award-winning novels Uprooted and Spinning Silver, and the Temeraire series. The specter of graduation looms large as Naomi Novik’s groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling trilogy continues in the stunning sequel to A Deadly Education.

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