jonsimonsen 's review for:

Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko

4.0

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3.5 rounded up for the compelling writing and fresh perspective on

Spoiler

magical education — this is a grown-up take on the effort and weirdness one might have to endure to become truly wizardly

. A major loss of points for the endless repetitiveness and fumbled ending.