As El, our first-person narrator, explains: However, the curriculum itself, which is not taught by teachers but simply manifests for the students to follow, doesn’t help matters. The Scholomance is infested with mals, dangerous magical creatures that want to kill the trainee wizards within, and so constant vigilance is required to see off attacks, whether you’re getting your lunch in the cafeteria or trying to find a book in the library. The first in a trilogy, it’s set at the Scholomance, a magical school that takes all the nagging doubts we had about Hogwarts – ‘why are teenagers allowed to attend a school that’s so dangerous?’ – and runs with them. Her latest novel, A Deadly Education, is both utterly different and equally brilliant. Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver, her second immersive folktale retelling, was one of my top ten books of 2020.
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