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Oct 15, 2020
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It's like Hogwarts where almost everyone is in Slytherin combined with the Hunger Games and there are monsters.
Edit from re-read: Loved it again! Can't wait for book 3! ...more
Edit from re-read: Loved it again! Can't wait for book 3! ...more
Full review to come. I enjoyed the book, particularly the sassy main character. However, the ending was a little disappointing. Still looking forward to the next book!
Disclaimer: There was some twitter chatter about this book being problematic. I found most of the claims to be unfounded but agree that although a reference to long hair being dangerous in a school essentially trying to eat you makes perfect sense in the made-up world of the book, the example used (dreadlocks) didn't translate well in the context of our increasingly racialized world. To give Ms. Novik credit, she apologized, indicated she meant no harm and will take out the example in future pri
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Naomi Novik is another of my favorite authors, and she doesn't disappoint with this one! I think the thing I love about it the most is the world building: a deadly school which is still safer for students than not attending, magic that works in its own ways, and a society of magicians unlike any others. I'm speeding ahead to book 2!
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This was brilliant. I really did love El and Orion and how she slowly made friends and found a place of belonging. I loved the world building and the way the magic worked. And I loved the creepy magical school. And I loved how the plot came together.
This was brilliant. I really did love El and Orion and how she slowly made friends and found a place of belonging. I loved the world building and the way the magic worked. And I loved the creepy magical school. And I loved how the plot came together.
Hovered between a 3 and a 4 - sometimes I got so frustrated with the teenage angst of it all and there was just SO much world building that it bogged down the story a bit (I mean, it was incredibly detailed and new and strange, and that was amazing, but it made some of the exposition a slog). But I did enjoy the weirdness and the matter of fact tone about all the horrors of the Scholomance. And the ending means I definitely have to read the next one ;)
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