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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2016: Uprooted (Naomi Novik)

“Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley.” It’s been a long time since I read a true fantasy novel. I had heard a lot of buzz about Uprooted over the last year, and all of it was positive. It was one of the few fantasy novels that I’d see people recommend over and over. And

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