That alone will draw the attention of young readers.īut those readers and their parents should know that this second book in the series, The Last Graduate, is filled with very dark and often brutally gruesome magic castings and monster attacks. And author Naomi Novik’s Scholomance series has been dubbed by many to be just that, albeit from a very dark and grim perspective. Of course, living … might be even harder.įans of the Harry Potter young-magicians-at-Hogwarts books have long been looking for a replacement series that they could dive into. And that’s especially true in light of the fact that nearly three-quarters of every graduating class is dead and devoured in the school’s graduation ceremony each year. So, stirring up volcanoes in the lunchroom just doesn’t make sense, no matter how you slice it. And if you don’t have the proper store of mana or the right spell at the ready, you are quite literally monster meat. They pop out of every crevasse and heating vent when you least expect. Mals are part of the learning curve, you might say. That is, of course, when it’s not directing lethal “maleficaria,” or “mals” for short, in the youngsters’ direction. It teaches the kids itself–magically delivering everything from meals to books and lesson plans. The Scholomance is a magic school that has no teachers or administration.
Not if she wants to graduate from The Scholomance. And El isn’t going to waste all of hers just to melt the faces off some kids who tick her off at lunch. That’s a limited resource that requires hard work to generate. (I mean, if someone’s written a spell that’ll destroy cities, slaughter crowds or torture people, all she has to do it glance at it and it’s in the old noggin.)īesides, big destructive spells take large amounts of mana. And now that she’s in her senior year, she’s really shown a skill set for mass destruction. Most students probably see her as a noxiously evil sorceress in the making. Really, she won’t.Įl may have been prophesized to someday be a world-destroying terror. I mean, that’s what they expect from her anyway, right? And boy, would that wipe the sneers off their faces!īut Galadriel “El” Higgins won’t do that. She could always call up a lava-spewing volcano in the lunchroom that would parboil all the nasty students glaring at her.
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