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The Last Graduate: A Novel (The Scholomance Book 2) by Naomi Novik
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The specter of graduation looms large as Naomi Novik’s groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling trilogy continues in the stunning sequel to A Deadly Education . HUGO AWARD FINALIST • LOCUS AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Polygon, Thrillist, She Reads • “The climactic graduation-day battle will bring cheers, tears, and gasps as the second of the Scholomance trilogy closes with a breathtaking cliff-hanger.”— Booklist (starred review) In Wisdom, Shelter. That’s the official motto of the Scholomance. I suppose you could even argue that it’s true—only the wisdom is hard to come by, so the shelter’s rather scant. Our beloved school does its best to devour all its students—but now that I’ve reached my senior year and have actually won myself a handful of allies, it’s suddenly developed a very particular craving for me. And even if I somehow make it through the endless waves of maleficaria that it keeps throwing at me in between grueling homework assignments, I haven’t any idea how my allies and I are going to make it through the graduation hall alive. Unless, of course, I finally accept my foretold destiny of dark sorcery and destruction. That would certainly let me sail straight out of here. The course of wisdom, surely. But I’m not giving in—not to the mals, not to fate, and especially not to the Scholomance. I’m going to get myself and my friends out of this hideous place for good—even if it’s the last thing I do. With keen insight and mordant humor, Novik reminds us that sometimes it is not enough to rewrite the rules—sometimes, you need to toss out the entire rulebook. The magic of the Scholomance trilogy will continue in The Golden Enclaves Read more
With the optimism of youth, our heroes devise a plan to save every child from the mals awaiting them in the world, removing the reason for the Scholomance's death march to graduation. El can graduate a hero rather than an evil sorceress and everyone can go home with plans to call each other afterwards. It ends about where you'd expect. Overall, I'm happy to have the second entry in the series, and I look forward to seeing where the graduates go from here. My only question is: Did they lose an editor along the way? The initial book had to world build because it was a new world and had to introduce characters and setting. The second book had to restate some of the previous world building for new readers. Unfortunately, it then gets carried away with restating the same information over and over and over again. Did you hear that Bangkok enclave got destroyed and China and the US were looking at going to war over it? It seems that the book really really really wants you to remember this info. It's a book and the info isn't even relevant to THIS story. If we forget, we can always go back and reread. And it's not even restated in new and interesting ways to try to reach people who might retain information differently. It's part of the endless narrative world building globs that keep me from rating this book higher. An editor really should have struck this info out in red pen when it reappeared. Or at least requested the author reframe it in dialogue to vary the presentation and make it relevant to someone even as a lesson. We're even given a great set up for that, as El is shut into a room with 8 freshmen every Wednesday, and they could talk and explain things to each other and give opinions. But no. It's spoon fed world building globs for you, dear reader. So if you liked the first book, definitely read the second. The overall story and concept is still entertaining. But expect to feel kind of tired and bored at various points as the narrative constantly digresses in ways that are repetitive and apropos of nothing.
ASIN -> B08K7KY8Q7 Publisher -> Del Rey (September 28, 2021) Publication date -> September 28, 2021 Language -> English File size -> 9253 KB Text-to-Speech -> Enabled Screen Reader -> Supported Enhanced typesetting -> Enabled
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