A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

by Naomi Novik

Or if you’re me, you can suck the life force out of a dozen kids and then incinerate half the school with you inside it. So helpful!

Yes, now I was worrying I’d be turned to the dark side by too much crochet.

“Are you not paying attention anymore on purpose now?” Orion demanded, coming up from behind me. I flipped him off with the hand that wasn’t clamped protectively over my abused ear.

I even found a little section of an LED lightstrip. Spellbooks are mad for electronics; if you make a book chest that lights up when you open it, you’re almost guaranteed never to lose a book unless you’re really careless.