Lesson One of the Scholomance: Learning has never been this deadly.
A Deadly Education is set at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death (for real) — until one girl, El, begins to unlock its many secrets.
There are no teachers, no holidays, and no friendships, save strategic ones. Survival is more important than any letter grade, for the school won’t allow its students to leave until they graduate… or die! The rules are deceptively simple: Don’t walk the halls alone. And beware of the monsters who lurk everywhere.
El is uniquely prepared for the school’s dangers. She may be without allies, but she possesses a dark power strong enough to level mountains and wipe out millions. It would be easy enough for El to defeat the monsters that prowl the school. The problem? Her powerful dark magic might also kill all the other students.
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Okay, where to begin... honestly, I kinda didn't like it. I forced myself to read it because I needed a book to read for my reading challenge and this just so happen to be the first book to pop up on Libby. It was interesting enough.... but it sort of fell flat at times. I felt like this book was setting you up for something amazing. Something absolutely incredible.... and it didn't. It felt like the climax never reached its peak until the last sentence of the book. It took 321 pages for me to really feel anything other than neutrality. I mean, come on! That last sentence was incredible! This was the peak I was waiting for, the spark I'd been looking for. Don't get me wrong, the book definitely had its moments that kept me enraptured and entertained... It just wasn't enough. Not just that it's incredibly dark, the amount of death they talk about is just sad.
Let us take El, for example. El is technically supposed to be this super evil witch capable of so much destruction that her great-grandmother wanted her dead, not in those words exactly... but nonetheless what she meant, And yet she didn't do anything except whine about how she could be this absolutely incredibly evil witch but isn't. It was nice that she didn't become an evil witch that easily, but the entire book is still spent talking about how she was destined for great evil and nothing. I felt like it was an absolute let down. Maybe Novik is setting it up for the second or third book. I checked, there should be three. Anyway, the romance was cute, if you could call it that.... Which honestly made it cuter. It was a clique and simple but nonetheless cute.
Honestly, I don't have much else to say about the book; it was just that okay. It wasn't amazing or incredible. It was just okay; the only really redeeming quality it had was the last sentence. That one sentence is what has made me want to invest time in the second book. It was just that intriguing. I mean, we just spent the whole last book falling in love with Orian, see this boy fumble around El, see El figure out she was kind of dating him. AND then her mom says to stay away from him?!? Why?!?
Anyway, until next time reader <3
Love Kat
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