Beg Barter and steel, and maybe you will see sunlight again. The good don’t win at Scholomance, mater a fact who gives a damn about good and evil. No, this is just dark, bloody, and cruel.
The Scholomance series is not a dark veneer painted over an otherwise sweet and endearing coming-of-age story. It is a type of violence that hits you on all sides. Plus, the children do not leave Scholomance for four years and have limited resources it is full of political intrigues and a course load that would break the best minds. Thankfully most of which is tamped down in favor of not becoming something’s dinner. The food is terrible and often poisonous and full of larva, the surroundings are terrifying, plus you still have to deal with teenage drama and hormones. There are no fundamental protections, except for those you make yourself. “the same kind of calm as going through a crying jag and coming out the other side, where you know nothing’s changed and it’s all still horrible but you can’t cry forever, so there’s nothing to do but go on.”
To graduate, you must run the gauntlet through an obstacle course of creatures from hell all bent on devouring your mind, body, and soul. You do not fail out you are blown to bits, eaten, have your skin flayed off in strips, have your soul sucked out, or suffer psychological damage. The survival rate for Scholomance is around 50%. The first book, A Deadly Education, introduces us to Galadriel (I do not know of a more perfect name for a character), a young student starting her junior year at a wizarding academy called Scholomance. “They were already vulnerable, so when they looked at me they were rabbits looking at a wolf – a half-starved wolf who sometimes snapped even at the hand that fed her because it also kept her on a leash.?”Īs someone who grew up with a massive love for Harry Potter but is now turned off by the saccharin sweetness of that series, The Last Graduate, book 2 of The Scholomance series is a perfect reminder that it is much more fun to play in the dark, snarky side of things. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the RingīOOK REVIEW the last graduate by NAOMI NOVIK And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! … All shall love me and despair!”
“…In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen.
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