At the Scholomance, survival isn’t a subject—it’s the curriculum.
Monsters lurk in every shadow, and friendships are forged through shared trauma and deadly odds. For El, an unwilling dark sorceress with enough power to wipe out entire cities, getting through school alive is a full-time job.
She’s not here to play hero. She’s definitely not joining the golden-boy clique led by Orion Lake, no matter how many times he saves her life. El doesn’t need help. What she needs is to survive without becoming the monster everyone expects her to be.
Naomi Novik’s A Deadly Education is a razor-sharp dark academia fantasy that blends biting wit, brilliant worldbuilding, and a heroine who refuses to follow anyone’s script.
School is hell—literally—but El intends to graduate.
