📖 peek insideA Deadly Education
by Naomi Novik
El Higgins is a student at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where graduation is a literal matter of life and death. There are no teachers and no holidays; monsters lurk in every corner, waiting to devour the weak. El possesses a dark, world-ending power she refuses to use, choosing instead to survive on her own terms. This sharp, darkly humorous novel subverts the 'chosen one' trope, offering a tense, claustrophobic atmosphere and a protagonist you can't help but root for.
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Notable Quotes
"I love having existential crises at bedtime, it's so restful."
"READER, I RAN the fuck away."
"I decided that Orion needed to die after the second time he saved my life."
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