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. 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. The Last Graduate, the second book in Naomi Novik's Scholomance series, sees her deepen the social themes that powered her 2020 novel A Deadly Education. The Scholomance Print length 416 pages Language English Publisher Del Rey Publication date SeptemDimensions 5.7 x 1.39 x 8. The course of wisdom, surely.īut I’m not giving in–not to the mals, not to fate, and especially not to the Scholomance. That would certainly let me sail straight out of here. Unless, of course, I finally accept my foretold destiny of dark sorcery and destruction. This institution was said to take in ten scholars at any one time, to study the arts of magic, the languages of animals, and so on. 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. (Spoilers for Book 2) In a conversation with Christopher Paolini, Naomi Novik tells us that the Scholomance is 'an old folk legend that's mentioned in Dracula'.
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.
I suppose you could even argue that it’s true–only the wisdom is hard to come by, so the shelter’s rather scant. That’s the official motto of the Scholomance. 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.
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