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reviewed A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik (The Scholomance, #1)

Naomi Novik: A Deadly Education (Hardcover, 2020, Del Rey)

I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my …

entertaining and unique

Loved the premise here, even if at times I questioned some of the internal logic of the magic laws at work. I was a little put off at the start by the narrative tone, but I eventually found a rhythm and it stopped bothering me. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series.

replied to Julie R's status

@abetterjulie@bookrastinating.com The rest of the trilogy is definitely worth reading! She really leans into the implications, both good and bad, of what's set up in the first book in terms of the magic system and the social structure.