The Last Graduate
The Sunday Times bestselling dark academia fantasy and sequel to A Deadly Education
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4.6 • 300 Ratings
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- $15.99
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Publisher Description
Sequel to the Sunday Times bestselling and Lodestar award-nominated A Deadly Education
'The dark school of magic I have been waiting for' Katherine Arden, author of The Bear and the Nightingale
'Fantasy that delights on every level' Stephanie Garber, author of Caraval
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Return to the Scholomance - and face an even deadlier graduation - in the stunning sequel to the ground-breaking, Sunday Times bestselling A Deadly Education.
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 . . .
For her.
As 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. 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.
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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.
A Deadly Education, Sunday Times bestseller - October 2020
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Picking up immediately after A Deadly Education, Novak offers an engrossing continuation of her dark fantasy series set at the deadly Scholomance boarding school. Galadriel "El" Higgins, a prophesied future dark sorceress and current high school senior, worries she has a target on her back after she and Orion Lake helped wipe out most of the monstrous maleficaria, or "mals," that prowl the school and prey on students. Then she learns that the school itself has a driving, supernatural need to protect as many magical children as it can, however it can—and it thinks this year's senior class will be the ones to fix the endemic problems with its system, forcing loner El to work together with her classmates. The propulsive plot and high stakes make for gripping reading, but readers hooked on the enemies-to-lovers dynamic established in book one will be frustrated that Orion has so little to do here and so few scenes with El. An extremely abrupt cliffhanger comes on the last page, which will have readers chomping at the bit for the next installment but leave many frustrated, especially as it threatens to undercut the book's themes of breaking damaging cycles and finding a solution to systemic inequality in collective action. Readers will hope for answers in the finale.
Customer Reviews
The last graduate
Good story
She just gets it right
Most angsty protagonists are incredibly annoying and oblivious to most important things. But Novik doesn’t make this mistake. Her characters are charming and just the right amount of funny. You feel relationships develop in a realistic way (I.e. unlikely friends or enemies she must begrudgingly rely on) and none of the annoying teen drama clichés are used- which is a breath of fries air. The only thing I don’t like is that this book has only just been released, which means I need to wait for the third! I need more! Thanks Naomi Novik, this series has given me some much needed down time during stressful times. Keep them coming.
Tedium
Too many mals going on and on and on so I stopped reading halfway through to flick to the end. And even that wasn’t satisfying.