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4.14 AVERAGE
4.14 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The atmosphere and world-building remain just as immersive and compelling, even after leaving the school setting. I love El experimenting with spell creation.
El also continues to be a love-it-or-hate-it character. Her voice/writing style is distinct, and your enjoyment may depend on how well you connect with her. The romance takes a backseat again, with Orion playing only a minimal role, much like in the second book. ):I didn't really enjoy the break in romance and going into sex with another person because she was missing Orion. Or El suddenly being bi, with no follow-up on how she feels. Or never talking to Orion about it.
It’s a swift read and thankfully, there’s no cliffhanger this time! The story wraps up neatly, tying everything together in a satisfying bow. It's overall a happy ending.Besides the fact that Orion's mom is still alive and evil. She even became the leader. Or the fact that she gets all the hate when his father was also complicit For me, the first book remains the strongest at 4.5 stars, with the second at 4.
El also continues to be a love-it-or-hate-it character. Her voice/writing style is distinct, and your enjoyment may depend on how well you connect with her. The romance takes a backseat again, with Orion playing only a minimal role, much like in the second book. ):
It’s a swift read and thankfully, there’s no cliffhanger this time! The story wraps up neatly, tying everything together in a satisfying bow. It's overall a happy ending.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Violence, Grief, Stalking, War, Classism
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Murder
I just really enjoyed this series. Very funny and reminiscent of fun YA fantasy from when I was a teenager and read nothing else.
Rating 3.5, rounding down.
Story took too long to become interesting much like in the first book. It's worse in this case because this is the final book and most of the first half feels wasted to me.
I don’t understand where the whole Liesel-El situation came from but to me it seemed extremely forced and pointless. Liesel? Seriously? And I was hoping to see more of Yancy and her crew which didn’t happen.
Rest of the book is pretty good. The ending is realistic and enjoyable, not too neat but not too messy either. But it's not a good enough conclusion for me to round up to a 4.
Story took too long to become interesting much like in the first book. It's worse in this case because this is the final book and most of the first half feels wasted to me.
I don’t understand where the whole Liesel-El situation came from but to me it seemed extremely forced and pointless. Liesel? Seriously? And I was hoping to see more of Yancy and her crew which didn’t happen.
Rest of the book is pretty good. The ending is realistic and enjoyable, not too neat but not too messy either. But it's not a good enough conclusion for me to round up to a 4.
A deeply disturbing and yet somehow hopeful conclusion to a wonderful trilogy.
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Again, this book picks up where the last one left off with El landing back in the commune in front of her and her mom's yurt, only much more devastated than the beginning of the last book. An aspect I loved about this final installment of The Scholomance series is that we got to see outside of the school and inside the enclaves from all around the world, from Beijing, to Dubai, to Mumbai, to New York, to London. And most importantly, we got to see how very grey this world of wizards is with no real good/bad division.
Sure, there are maleficers (bad wizards), but we don't come with a big speech or a neat solution leading to their erasure and that's what I loved about this world. I feel that especially in many young adult fantasies we are faced with that division that someone is all good or all bad and this book really avoids that narrative and offers a more realistic version where people do bad or wrong things for the right reasons or because they don't have other options. It's one of the reasons, along with the writing style, that I feel this book is for adults, just with younger characters.
One thing I'd like to acknowledge about this series is that it is not a romance, and thank goodness for that. While Orion and El care for each other and we see small moments of them giving into it and developing a relationship, they have more serious issues facing them and there isn't any time for longing glances or stolen moments.
The idea of maw-mouths are crazy and the revelations we received about them and the enclaves in this book were fully surprising but not unbelievable. Upon reflection, it made total sense and the previous books have totally been setting up for this eventual ending.
This book was far more fast paced than the other two, but that doesn't mean it was better than them. I do think the second one was my favorite, but the writing and story in this conclusion are worthy of all the stars for me.
Sure, there are maleficers (bad wizards), but we don't come with a big speech or a neat solution leading to their erasure and that's what I loved about this world. I feel that especially in many young adult fantasies we are faced with that division that someone is all good or all bad and this book really avoids that narrative and offers a more realistic version where people do bad or wrong things for the right reasons or because they don't have other options. It's one of the reasons, along with the writing style, that I feel this book is for adults, just with younger characters.
One thing I'd like to acknowledge about this series is that it is not a romance, and thank goodness for that. While Orion and El care for each other and we see small moments of them giving into it and developing a relationship, they have more serious issues facing them and there isn't any time for longing glances or stolen moments.
The idea of maw-mouths are crazy and the revelations we received about them and the enclaves in this book were fully surprising but not unbelievable. Upon reflection, it made total sense and the previous books have totally been setting up for this eventual ending.
This book was far more fast paced than the other two, but that doesn't mean it was better than them. I do think the second one was my favorite, but the writing and story in this conclusion are worthy of all the stars for me.
adventurous
dark
hopeful
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Absolutely incredible. So so clever. I did not see it coming and I totally loved the way we had the only other person to kill a maw mouth appear at the end. Absolutely wonderful book
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes