The school certainly does.īut the Scholomance isn't getting what it wants from me. Sometimes I think they want me to turn into the evil witch they assume I am. Most of the other students in here would be delighted if Orion killed me like one more evil thing that's crawled out of the drains. Just give me a chance and I'll level mountains and kill untold millions, make myself the dark queen of the world.Īt least, that's what the world expects. Forget the hordes of monsters and cursed artifacts, I'm probably the most dangerous thing in the place. I don't need help surviving the Scholomance, even if they do. I'm not joining his pack of adoring fans. Far as I'm concerned, he can keep his flashy combat magic to himself.
I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my life.Įveryone loves Orion Lake. I skipped a lot of her rambling.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver comes the first book of the Scholomance trilogy, the story of an unwilling dark sorceress who is destined to rewrite the rules of magic.įINALIST FOR THE LODESTAR AWARD - "The dark school of magic I've been waiting for."-Katherine Arden, author of the Winternight Trilogy It would have been nice to have more dialogue with other characters.
What didn’t work for me is we are seriously in El’s head the whole time! This book is only 336 pages and took me 2 weeks or more to finish! 😳 It’s a lot of info dumping and rambling and I could not get through it fast enough. I did think the world building is great, a school infested with monsters – sounds pretty crazy and they have to use their magic skills to stay alive and graduate. They become reluctant friends, and eventually more than friends but that was the only time the story held onto my interest. El is the perfect main character for a place like this school – she is grumpy, sassy, rude, not someone you will like or relate to, definitely not a likable character but she’s smart and aware of her surroundings, she knows how to survive this school, I give her credit for that! Her relationship with Orion the hero of Scholomance is one of my favorite parts.
It is a deadly education indeed! I like the tone – there are monsters everywhere, I don’t even see how these kids survive and not a lot do. I like how appropriate the title of this book is. This one did not work for me even though there were some parts I actually did like about the story.
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