2021: #5 – A Deadly Education (Naomi Novik)

A Deadly Education is a book about a high school for magical teens, but this definitely isn’t Hogwarts. The basics are: the school is supposed to protect the teens from the monsters who want to eat their delicious, still uncontrolled power; the school really sucks at protecting the teens from the monsters; every year on graduation day, the seniors are dumped into the infested Graduation

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2019: #12 – Shadow & Bone (Leigh Bardugo)

I had low expectations for this series, but ended up being pleasantly surprised! Alina is a mapmaker for the King’s army, and her childhood best friend Mal is a scout with unusual abilities. They grew up together in an orphanage, where they were both evaluated for powers by the Grisha when they were young. Since (it appeared) neither had Grisha abilities (such as the ability

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