Now, I’m sure this is the exact same writing style as A Deadly Education, which I gave four stars. To my dismay, I often ended up with whole pages highlighted.

I am a big highlighter when I read, but to my frustration, it was almost impossible to highlight a mere sentence or two with what I thought might be important later, because all of the sentences of The Last Graduate are incredibly long, usually looking like whole paragraphs. And most of these things that she endlessly describes aren’t even that pertinent to the story at large or the situation at hand. Instead of being charming, I found these monologues tedious and incessant El can literally find anything to dump information about and she certainly doesn’t do it concisely. Instead of taking delight in El’s long-winded diatribes about magic, enclaves, maleficarias, or the Scholomance, I found I was incredibly tempted to skim a lot of these descriptions in my read through. Though The Last Graduate has the same quirky and sarcastic narration by El, as well as the same setting, I found that The Last Graduate just didn’t work for me quite as well as its predecessor. This year, El is a senior, and has to prepare for the most deadly part of her education yet-graduation. All young wizards are crammed in this competitive school in England to survive the many maleficarias or “mals,” who are attracted by the mana of young wizards and wish to feast on them.

Both entries in the series so far follow Galadriel, known as “El,” and her attempts to survive schooling in a magical school known as the Scholomance. The Last Graduate is the follow up to A Deadly Education. Until El realizes that sometimes winning the game means throwing out all the rules. El is determined that her chosen group will survive, but it is a prospect that is looking harder by the day as the savagery of the school ramps up. Published by Del Rey Books on September 28th 2021īuy on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, The Book DepositoryĪ budding dark sorceress determined not to use her formidable powers uncovers yet more secrets about the workings of her world in the stunning sequel to A Deadly Education, the start of Naomi Novik’s groundbreaking crossover series.Īt the Scholomance, El, Orion, and the other students are faced with their final year-and the looming specter of graduation, a deadly ritual that leaves few students alive in its wake. The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2) by Naomi Novik This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

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