To her own surprise, El is unwilling to abandon the younger students and kills the mal with mana she had been saving for graduation. On her first day with them, they are attacked by a mal in the classroom. Meanwhile, El is faintly outraged to discover that she has been assigned a punishingly difficult courseload and, strangely, put into a homeroom with eight freshmen. No one has taken responsibility, but the wizard community is on high alert, and a war between enclaves may be brewing. The student body is troubled to learn from incoming freshmen that Bangkok enclave vanished mysteriously, along with everyone inside at the time. Plot įollowing the events of A Deadly Education, El and her friends begin their senior year. The first book of the series, A Deadly Education, was released on September 29, 2020.Īlthough written for adults, The Last Graduate won the 2022 Lodestar Award, awarded by the World Science Fiction Convention for the best young adult science fiction or fantasy book of the past year. It was published by Del Rey on Septemand is the second of The Scholomance trilogy. The Last Graduate is a 2021 fantasy novel written by American author Naomi Novik following Galadriel 'El' Higgins, a half-Welsh, half-Indian sorceress, who must survive to graduation while controlling her destructive abilities at the fabled school of black magic, the Scholomance. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book

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