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A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

56 reviews

rinku's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Vomit

Minor: Animal death and Suicide

rosemarygrace1211's review against another edition

adventurous dark lighthearted tense fast-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

4.0

Remember how in Harry Potter, there were “serious concerns about student safety”? If you’ve ever thought “I want a book set in a magical school but I want every moment of every day to be dangerous,” then this is the book for you! 

Honestly let’s leave Joann in the past

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Child death, Classism, and Death of parent

cakeylu's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Violence, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Vomit, and Body horror

Moderate: Grief, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Confinement

Minor: Alcohol and Mental illness

norwegianforestreader's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Violence, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Child death, Classism, Death of parent, Animal death, Blood, and Murder

isabellew6's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Murder, Child death, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Pregnancy

c_arthur's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, and Vomit

greatu's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Child death and Death of parent

nutm3g's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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

5.0

A quick way to describe A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik would be to say it is like Harry Potter meets The Magicians meets Deadly Class. The students are all fighting to stay alive till graduation day (and especially make it through that day) whether it be from themselves, fellow students turned dark, the mal creeping in, and even the magic they are learning. There is a great sense of wrongness with how there are enclaves, and how the world and school itself was designed with them in mind at the sacrifice of those with the unfortunate luck of being born into nothing. The friendships are developed well, considering the Scholomance is not a place where trust is taken lightly.

**POSSIBLE SPOILERS** It was very interesting how it starts off letting us know El is evil-inclined (regardless of if she wants to be) and with a foreboding prophecy about her supposed destruction, but as the story unfolds you begin to see that she is very much a hero and that her fate may be leaning more towards salvation for the disenfranchised magic-wielders.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cannibalism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Vomit

foreverinastory's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

I'm still debating my rating because there was an overtly racist statement, which has been addressed by the author and changed for future printings, but I still don't like that it hasn't been updated in the audiobook. Plus besides that I was still so confused by the whole premise of this book, like why would anyone want to go to this school??

Rep: Indian female MC. Various students from all over the world. I wish I could be more specific but I already forgot everyone...

CWs: Blood, bullying, child death, confinement, death, fire, injury/injury detail, gore, toxic friendship (of side character), violence. Moderate: Addiction, drug use and abuse by side character, murder. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Murder

oliverreeds's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

good vibes. very dark. the lore was good but not spread out enough and very thick and dense in some areas. believable characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence