This title is a couple years old now, and I actually had it in my audible library when a review copy was offered to me, so I thought that it would be an excellent opportunity to send it right up to the top of my to-listen list!
Thanks to the author as well as Random House Publishing for the review copy!
A Deadly Education is set at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death (for real) — until one girl, El, begins to unlock its many secrets.
There are no teachers, no holidays, and no friendships, save strategic ones. Survival is more important than any letter grade, for the school won’t allow its students to leave until they graduate… or die! The rules are deceptively simple: Don’t walk the halls alone. And beware of the monsters who lurk everywhere.
El is uniquely prepared for the school’s dangers. She may be without allies, but she possesses a dark power strong enough to level mountains and wipe out millions. It would be easy enough for El to defeat the monsters that prowl the school. The problem? Her powerful dark magic might also kill all the other students.
A Deadly Education is the story of Galadriel or just El who is a magic user studying at the Scholomance. Scholomance is a lot like it sounds, a magic school somewhat like Hogwarts, except that it seems to be the only magical school in the world and so children from all over the world go to it. Very much unlike Hogwarts, as the title suggests it’s quite dangerous there and many children don’t make it to graduation.
El is an outcast at school. She doesn’t have any friends, she’s just making her own way when all of a sudden one of the most popular kids at school befriends her out of nowhere, and many shenanigans are had.
I listened to the audiobook, since I had it already to go, and I really enjoyed it. I finished it in just a day and a half. The narrator, Anisha Dadia did a fantastic job and she really brought El to life for me, so it was really easy to stay immersed and listening.
I’d recommend a deadly education to anyone that likes a good magical school story that isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. 4/5 stars!
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