Why did I love this book?
As an adult, I find there are fewer and fewer books that allow me to access the sheer amazement I felt as a kid toward books (and why I devoted over a dozen years to them as an adult). The Scholomance series re-immersed me in this feeling as I surrendered to the world, narrative, and characters of the Scholomance.
I stayed up all night, the plot tugging me on, leaving me ambivalent about anything outside the world of the book. I laughed with delight and pure, writerly awe at how skillfully Novak wove every thread of the plot together.
And I’m a little envious that you may get to read this series for the first time and experience the incredible mix of nostalgia, originality, fear, hope, and flawed love in the pages.
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate.
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Paste, Publishers Weekly
The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll do when you get out. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. But it’s all we dream about: the hideously slim chance we’ll survive to make it out the gates and improbably…