A Deadly Education
- 313
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 1 week on the list, peaked at #10
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Our view
“A Deadly Education” turns the ordinary anxieties of school into matters of survival: in this academy for sorcerers, a pupil without allies may not live to graduate. The monsters are a real menace, which gives the book a much darker edge than most magic-school fantasy and makes it a poor fit for children. Some readers need the first quarter to warm to El, its prickly heroine.
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About the book
A Deadly Education is a 2020 fantasy novel written by North 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 a school of magic very loosely inspired by the legend of the Scholomance. It was published by Del Rey on September 29, 2020 and is the first book of The Scholomance Trilogy. Its sequel, The Last Graduate, was released on September 28, 2021, and the final volume in the trilogy, The Golden Enclaves, was published in September 2022.
Reading order · The Scholomance
Full order & progress →- A Deadly EducationThis book
8.08.0 / 10 - The Last Graduate
8.48.4 / 10 - The Golden Enclaves
8.28.2 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 1,016 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 87% of the weight and the score stays at 8.0 — the Fantasy average of 8.0 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.1 | 28 | 3% |
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 988 | 97% |
Frequently asked
How long is A Deadly Education?
It has 313 pages — shorter than 93% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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