Following the events of The Last Graduate, El is reunited with her mother Gwen and tries to come to terms with Orion's sacrifice. Liesel arrives, informing El that she is needed as the London enclave is under attack and not likely to survive. After defending the London enclave from the besieging maw-mouth, she requests that they open their gardens to non-enclave wizards.
A budding dark sorceress determined not to use her formidable powers uncovers yet more secrets about the workings of her world in the stunning sequel to A Deadly Education, the start of Naomi Novik’s groundbreaking crossover series. At the Scholomance, El, Orion, and the other students are faced with their final year—and the looming specter of graduation, a deadly ritual that leaves few students alive in its wake. El is determined that her chosen group will survive, but it is a prospect that is looking harder by the day as the savagery of the school ramps up. Until El realizes that sometimes winning the game means throwing out all the rules . .
The first book of the Scholomance trilogy is the story of an unwilling dark sorceress who is destined to rewrite the rules of magic. I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my life. Everyone loves Orion Lake. Everyone else, that is. Far as I’m concerned, he can keep his flashy combat magic to himself. I’m not joining his pack of adoring fans. I don’t need help surviving the Scholomance, even if they do. Forget the hordes of monsters and cursed artifacts, I’m probably the most dangerous thing in the place. Just give me a chance and I’ll level mountains and kill untold millions, make myself the dark queen of the world.
A dark enchantment blights the land in the award-winning 'Uprooted'—a captivating fantasy inspired by fairy tales and steeped in Slavic folklore. Agnieszka loves her village, set deep in a peaceful valley. But the nearby enchanted forest casts a shadow over her home. Many have been lost to the Wood and none return unchanged. The villagers depend on an ageless wizard, the Dragon, to protect them from the forest’s dark magic.
A Deadly Education thrusts readers into the Scholomance, a merciless magical academy where students must outwit lethal creatures or perish. El, a sharp‑tongued, uniquely powerful sorceress shunned by her peers, must navigate deadly alliances and her own destructive abilities to survive—and maybe even graduate.
Galadriel “El” Higgins has finally escaped the Scholomance’s dread halls—only to find the magical world outside teetering on the brink of collapse. Armed with arcane power, sardonic wit, and fierce loyalty, she must rebuild the broken enclaves, confront brewing war, and decide whether survival is worth the cost.
Galadriel “El” Higgins enters her senior year at the Scholomance, a brutal, sentient school of magic, where she must rally unlikely allies to survive deadly maleficaria and confront a system that seems determined to devour her—and her classmates. As graduation looms, El discovers that survival may require more than individual strength: it demands a bold, defiant collaboration that could redefine the rules of dark sorcery.
