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By: Naomi Novik (Author)
A Deadly Education: A Novel (The Scholomance, Book 1)
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By: Naomi Novik (Author)
Kindle Customer –
Hunger Games with Magic
Interesting take on how very hard it is to be a person in high school. The grumbling of the main character was very entertaining and the story came together nicely.
DragonCeres –
A dark magical school with a snarky heroine? Count me in!
Naomi Novik has done it again! I loved it!I was very skeptical about this book. I’m not totally into the magical school thing, and the early reviews seemed to be pretty polarizing, but I decided to give it a chance. Boy, I’m glad I did. It is now my favorite read of 2020! Actually, maybe tied with the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Anyway, I haven’t read a book in 2 days this entire year, not counting novella, not to mention I was also working 12 hr days, so I’m definitely suffering from lack of sleep now.Anyway, our protagonist, Galadriel, or “El” (ugh, I dislike both names, but at least the book is first person POV so I didn’t have to deal with that as much), is in a school where monsters roam that like to eat kids with mana, magic. However, the school is still safer than the outside world, where magical kids are twice as likely to die during their teenage years when their mana is growing but they haven’t learned a lot of spells to protect themselves yet.El is in such a school, but she doesn’t come from a fancy background, so she has to work hard to make alliances, which is made harder by the fact that apparently people think she’s evil (she gives off this aura). I loved El’s snarky and sarcastic voice immediately, but the first 20 pages was a struggle for sure because there was a lot of info-dump on her background and her growing up. However, once that was over, and we get to the actual info-dump about the world-building part, I was all in.Naomi Novik has built an amazing school and setting for the story. A place where the staircases can stretch and libraries can prevent you from finding books and monsters hide in your food just waiting for you to let you guard down. I definitely wouldn’t have survived, but El’s got spunk and she’s smart. So of course it kills her and makes her infinitely angry when Orion Lake, the darling of their class, has no sense of self-preservation and disregards all her precautions and still somehow survive because he has strong combat magic and has an endless supply of mana to use it.While I soaked up and loved every tiny detail of the magical school, I also liked El and how she felt real. If this was a contemporary YA book, she’s no different from a shy and socially awkward girl that doesn’t quite fit in. She wants so desperately to fit in, not because she loves the popular kids, but it was a matter of life or death. Still, even when given the choice, she chose to sacrifice her life for the well-being of others. She’s a do-gooder even if no one is there to witness it, and I loved that about her. Her tentative reach for friendship with Aadhya and Liu also touched me, the uncertainty and fear she felt, the knowledge that maybe it’s not as hard as she’s making it out to me. I loved watching her grow her self-imposed loneliness to having a circle of close and trusted friends that she would never abandon.I agree with some other reviewers in that some of the other characters are not as fleshed out, and that could’ve been better, but the story’s main focus is on El and her growth and that was done really well. Also, I can see how the random info-dumping can turn some people off if the world doesn’t grab you immediately. From the moment it was mentioned that there was a void in her bedroom that throws her magical spellbooks at her request, I knew I was in!And it was overall just such a fun book. El’s sarcasm and snark kept a smile on my face, even as I read through her internal monologues. I hope that doesn’t change in the second book. I can’t wait to read the second book!
Jose –
The main charachter is just such a lovely tsundere. The kind of girl with a resting bitch face and a death stare to make weaker boys to go running, but with a mushy lovable interior a penchant for always doing what’s right, no matter the cost, and a great brave heart full of love for her friends and significant others.
Skyrade –
Diese fesselnde Geschichte entführt die Leser in eine Welt voller Magie, Gefahr und unerwarteter Wendungen. Die Autorin schafft eine faszinierende Umgebung, in der eine Schule nicht nur Wissen, sondern auch Ãberlebensfähigkeiten lehrt. Tauche ein in dieses mitreiÃende Buch, das dich von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite in seinen Bann ziehen wird â ein Muss für alle, die sich nach einer einzigartigen und packenden Leseerfahrung sehnen.
isabel Lima –
Bom livro. Chegou rápido
Emy –
No começo fiquei triste que paguei mais caro no livro e tinha o mesmo mais barato, porém valeu cada centavo. A história tem muitas explicações no meio pra você entender e cada reviravolta, o que vai acontecendo e como aquilo vai rolando, a atitude da Galadriel com todo mundo foi muito bem desenvolvido, eu adorei o livro e estou em choque com o final, muito ansiosa pro próximo, já reservei, com esperanças de que seja um livro bem maior pra eu demorar mais apreciando isso.
Wilfried Tinkhauser –
Tutto molto bene