As the end of term draws nearer, El becomes close with not only Chloe, but also members of other alliances as they exchange favours and cooperate to help one another. Chloe obliges, but also startles El by asking to join her alliance with Aadhya and Liu - a request which Chloe would only make if she genuinely believed it would help her survive graduation. El believes Chloe will grant her access to the New Yorkers’ pool of shared mana because of El’s nebulous involvement with Orion, who is the son of a prominent New York sorceress. Over the weeks that follow, El and the eight freshmen are relentlessly targeted by mal attacks which El fights off.Įl finds her supplies of mana dwindling and reluctantly asks for help from Chloe Rasmussen, a girl from the New York enclave. To her own surprise, El is unwilling to abandon the younger students and kills the mal with mana she had been saving for graduation. On her first day with them, they are attacked by a mal in the classroom.
Meanwhile, El is faintly outraged to discover that she has been assigned a punishingly difficult courseload and, strangely, put into a homeroom with eight freshmen. No one has taken responsibility, but the wizard community is on high alert, and a war between enclaves may be brewing. The student body is troubled to learn from incoming freshmen that Bangkok enclave vanished mysteriously, along with everyone inside at the time. Plot įollowing the events of A Deadly Education, El and her friends begin their senior year. The first book of the series, A Deadly Education, was released on September 29, 2020.Īlthough written for adults, The Last Graduate won the 2022 Lodestar Award, awarded by the World Science Fiction Convention for the best young adult science fiction or fantasy book of the past year. It was published by Del Rey on Septemand is the second of The Scholomance trilogy.
The Last Graduate is a 2021 fantasy novel written by American author Naomi Novik following Galadriel "El" Higgins, a half-Welsh, half-Indian sorceress, who must survive to graduation while controlling her destructive abilities at the fabled school of black magic, the Scholomance. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book
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