It’s wicked, clever, and very fast-paced, involving plans to escape the Scholomance which just keep getting higher and higher in terms of stakes. El and Orion are absolutely one of the best, most fulfilling YA romances I’ve ever read.

Everything my little literary-romantic heart could desire. Genuinely barely appears in the first three chapters or so.īut when he does, GOD. To be fair, there’s not really much need to ‘beware’ of him for the first 30% of the book, because he features surprisingly little. TLG picks up exactly where ADE leaves off, with El having received a mysterious note from her mum telling her to beware of Orion Lake. Okay, I gave it a week, and feel a bit calmer now. ĪRC received in exchange for an honest review – thank you! Until El realizes that sometimes winning the game means throwing out all the rules. El is determined that her chosen group will survive, but it is a prospect that is looking harder by the day as the savagery of the school ramps up. Wry, witty, endlessly inventive, and mordantly funny - yet with a true depth and fierce justice at its heart - this enchanting novel reminds us that there are far more important things than mere survival.At the Scholomance, El, Orion, and the other students are faced with their final year-and the looming specter of graduation, a deadly ritual that leaves few students alive in its wake. But as the spectre of graduation looms - the deadly final ritual that leaves few students alive - if she and her allies are to make it out, El will need to realise that sometimes winning the game means throwing out all the rules. Īs the savagery of the school ramps up, El is determined that she will not give in not to the mals, not to fate, and especially not to the Scholomance. The dark school of magic has always done its best to devour its students, but now that El has reached her final year - and somehow won herself a handful of allies along the way - it's suddenly developed a very particular craving. Return to the Scholomance - and face an even deadlier graduation - in the stunning sequel to the ground-breaking, Sunday Times bestselling A Deadly Education. 'Fantasy that delights on every level' Stephanie Garber, author of Caraval 'The dark school of magic I have been waiting for' Katherine Arden, author of The Bear and the Nightingale Sequel to the Sunday Times bestselling and Lodestar award-nominated A Deadly Education Once you enter the Scholomance there are only two way out: you graduate or you die. The exciting follow up to the Sunday Times bestselling A Deadly Education.

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