A Deadly Education
{5/5} “People seem to have no trouble convincing themselves that I’m dangerous and evil even when they aren’t actively looking for reasons. Of course, I could have killed him just be draining his mana, but I didn’t want to actually become a maleficer and then go bursting out of this place like most monstrous butterfly hatching from a gigantic chrysalis of doom to lay waste and sow sorrow across the world as per the prophecy.”
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik, published in 2020
Galadriel is at Scholomance, the school for magic. She has plans for getting herself a good reputation, but Orion Lake is ruining them. He chased a soul-eater into her room and incandesced it, leaving a big mess that she had to clean up. The other students, momentarily interested in her, just want to hear how Orion saved her life.
This is the 1st book in the Scholomance trilogy.
The first chapter is astonishing — you haven’t read about a school like this before. It has a terrific sense of humour.
It has a delightful main character you’ll want to follow wherever she goes. It’s about trying to be a good person in a fairly terrible situation.
It ends with a little surprise that will make things interesting in the second book.
This is the 1st book I’ve read by Novik.