A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Read in November 2020 A new Naomi Novik trilogy that's been described as a dark Harry Potter? Yes, please! This is one of my most anticipated releases of 2020. ~*~*~*~ 4.5 stars. WOW! The worldbuilding and magic system are so creative. There's a fantastic mix of wicked darkness and high school cliquey drama here too. I love it! I also love El. She's so sassy and snarky. It's great to see the struggle she has trying hard not to be the maleficer she is apparently destined to be especially when magic tends to go wrong for El. "I've got a summoning spell that raises a dozen of them," I said. "It was used to burn the Library of Alexandria". "Why would you ask for a spell like that!" "What I asked for was a spell to light my room, you twat, that's what I got! " She is also so fantastically blunt. "Reader, I ran the fuck away." I cackled so much at that line. Didn't I say El was great? Her friendship with the clu...