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.“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) 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.The world is unique, the characters matter-of-factly diverse, and the plot solid. This duology has joined my list of favorite books alongside Novik’s earlier Uprooted, and Robin McKinley’s Sunshine. As the school presents more and more dangerous scenarios in the gym, it quickly becomes clear to the senior class that their graduation might be unlike any other before. The second half of the book, like the second half senior year in the Scholomance, is focused on the run to survive the graduation hall filled with mals. El’s mouse familiar (I will not spoil the delight of her name here) gains a personality to match her mistress and she quickly became one of my favorite parts of the story, adjacent to El and Orion not-dating, which was delightful. So as the seniors rush to survive their last semester of classes, mals become more scarce, and Orion spends more time hunting them to the detriment of his schoolwork. Orion, of course, has been hunting mals since he was entombed in the school, and sees no reason to give up his hunting now.
El has possibly the worst senior class schedule ever, and the school seems to be setting her up to eat some of the first-years and embrace the malificer path or be forced to save them over and over. Things could be looking up, but this is the Scholomance and it only moves down. Galadriel – ehm, El – has actually acquired friends, and a not-boyfriend-but-kind-of in Orion. The sequel picks up right where the first book leaves off. It’s not often a sequel matches the epic-ness of a really fantastic first novel, but let me say to all of you Deadly Education fans: you will not be disappointed with The Last Graduate.
This book is the sequel to A Deadly Education, which was flat-out amazing if you like slightly dark and broody sarcastic protagonists and unique world building.
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