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A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik
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A Deadly Education

A Deadly Education

Naomi Novik

Book 1 of The Scholomance

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⚠ Racism⚠ Murder⚠ Death of a Parent⚠ Graphic Violence⚠ Child Death⚠ Animal Death⚠ Death⚠ Kidnapping⚠ Bullying⚠ Classism

El Higgins is a prickly, immensely powerful teenage sorceress trying to survive four brutal years at the Scholomance, a magic school with no teachers where monstrous creatures regularly try to kill the students. Her uneasy alliance and simmering rivalry with golden-boy hero Orion Lake forces her to question her own isolation and the ruthless, classist system that decides who gets to survive. It's a dark, witty take on the magical-boarding-school story, heavy on worldbuilding and survival tension rather than romance.

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