That Devil, Ambition
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- ¥1,700
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From Lambda Literary Award finalist Linsey Miller comes this thrilling stand-alone fantasy about the lengths we'll go to get ahead—an incredibly fresh, twisty love letter to dark academia...with a body count.
Perfect for fans of A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid, Gallant by V. E. Schwab, and All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody and C. L. Herman.
There is only one school worth graduating from, and it creates as many magicians as it does graves…
First in his class and last in his noble line, Fabian Galloway’s only hope of a good future is passing his elite school's honors class. It’s only offered to the best thirteen students, and those students have a single assignment: kill their professor.
If they succeed, their student debt is forgiven. However, if an assassination attempt fails or the professor is alive at the end of the year, the students’ lives are forfeit.
And dealing with the professor, a devil summoned solely to kill or be killed, is no easy task.
Fabian isn't worried, though. He trusts his best friends—softhearted math genius Credence and absent-minded but insightful Euphemia—to help. After all, that’s why he befriended them.
As the months pass and their professor remains impossibly alive, the trio must use every asset they have to survive. Or else failure will be on their academic records—and their tombstones—forever.
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In the magical nation of Cifra, three honors students enroll in a class with a dark objective: kill or be killed. As Cifra's only school, "built upon the traditions of a bloodier time," that's willing to train gifted young magicians in the dangerous art of severance, or cognitively leaving one's body, the Stellarium's elite honors program tasks 13 students with killing their teacher, a devil, before the last day of class. Failed attempts are punished by death, and all remaining students are killed if the devil-professor survives to the final bell. For ambitious Fabian, his flighty stepsister Euphemia, and their numbers-loving friend Credence, the honors program—which secures voting rights, high-paying jobs, and student loan waivers for graduates—is the only hope of a successful future. But how does a mortal teenager kill an immortal being? Esoteric prose occasionally stifles a compelling premise. Miller (Prince of Glass & Midnight) nevertheless devises a fresh, physics- and chemistry-driven magical system and utilizes cerebral close-third-person storytelling and biting narration to confront the twisted politics of dark academia. Characters are intersectionally diverse. Ages 14–up.
