I absolutely loved diving back into Scholomance and the deadly school. The ending threw me and I need to read it again. There was such great world building and the adventure Ek when on was amazing, even her complicated love story with Orian. It is a must read for me.

Whaaaattttt? Who else had that reaction on finishing?

Well, I thought I knew a bit about the Scholomance from A Deadly Education but The Last Graduate took my expectations and threw them out into the void. This installment took many an unexpected turn but continued to deliver on a great story, snarkastic wit and characters to cheer for.

El showed a new level of maturity in this book, a little more measured and I think that had a lot to do with the fact that she had friends, that she wasn’t alone. These platonic friendships, the potential alliances were rich in trust issues and fun to read. El and Orion were an interesting grumpy and grumpy/sometimes sunshine.

Plotting and planning was a big part of this year’s graduating class and I did not see that final plan coming. The magic complexity went up a notch and I was able to follow but also I was agog at the skills need to set things in motion.

Naomi Novik made these characters elevate from sophomore to senior and I’m still rather enamoured by this world. Bring me book three on a plate, please!

Thank you to Del Rey UK for the gorgeous review copy.

The ARC of this book was provided by the publisher Del Rey (Random House UK, Cornerstone) via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I loved being back in this world and to its dark school of magic, the Scholomance. What I really appreciated about the first novel was Novik’s ability to depict this world as it was a real one you can encounter just by exiting the door of your house. The care and attention behind every description is just majestic.
I was also glad to get back to El, our anti-heroine, and to fall in love with her once again. In this book, she’s still the same witty and sassy girl, but she gets even better. I think in this novel we witness El’s incredible personal growth, and it is something done in such a realistic and genuine way that really got to me. I also loved seeing the other characters grow into the men and women they’ve become.

Like the first book, The Last Graduate is a beautifully written work full of sarcasm and very dark elements and topics. Last year, I claimed that A Deadly Education had posed a fascinating question: how do you preserve who you are as a person in the midst of every horrible thing that happens to you, or that you have to do, inside the Scholomance in order to survive? Now I can say that we get an answer in this second book, and it is that not only you can preserve your own identity and personality, but you can also become a better version of yourself. And this is a message that spoke directly to my heart.

The Last Graduate - Review by BookLore.co.uk

No spoilers

Imagine a world where as a parent, you have to make a choice between having your child at home or sending them away to a school. The choice that you have to make is because as young magic users, they start to attract the mals (evil beasties, can be camouflaged, hard to kill and like to attack and kill people); and to keep them at home with you means that they are more likely to be killed. Or do you send them away? To a place, a Scholomance, where keeping these young magic users together attracts more mals but improves their overall odds of survival by teaching them to use their gifts, but chances are, they are still unlikely to survive.

And imagine, not seeing your child between school years, once they leave, they stay away until they graduate. Or not, as the case may be. The first book in the series ended at the start of El’s last year in school with a cryptic message from her mother, unfortunately her mother’s intuition did not offer a reason, and it was really too late anyway.

The last year at the Scholomance sees El with her friends and Orlando, planning and hoping for a life after school, wondering how they will either return to or enter a community which will offer them lifelong security. The competition to get a place in an enclave is harsh, you need to have skills which are desirable, and being a hard working good friend is not enough. Even enclave superstar Orlando’s relationship with his New York group is somewhat skewed in their favour, which makes you wonder how high a price you should be prepared to pay to get a space in such a community.

The politics of the magical outside world are explored in this book and the historical development of the enclaves which fulfil the requirements of protection and livelihoods for their inhabitants. The rivalries and specialities of the enclaves are fleshed out a bit more and as you read further, you come to appreciate the structure of the magical world that the author is creating.

The relationships between the young people in the school are nicely developed, their fears explored through the lens of the closed community. As friendships become alliances, these alliances become increasingly important as they offer an opportunity to survive graduation, leaving the Scholomance. But the Scholomance has different ideas; almost sentient with the latent magic, it keeps tempting El to get her to go where it wants, but what she finds may not be what she (or we) expected.

I love this series, El is a lovely heroine, her story really draws you in, having started pretty much alone, lots of people will empathise with her feelings of delight in her new relationships, and yet she is suspicious of fitting into a group. It really is compelling and wonderful and the half-rumours of the outside world give enough hints about life beyond the Scholomance that I really don’t want to wait for the next / last in the series. but I will so enjoy going back and re-reading the first two books, so that will be something to look forward to.

Real talk. I enjoyed this more than the first instalment, A Deadly Education. The first book, I felt, took a while to get going and I wasn't as attached to the characters. The Last Graduate really turned these feelings around!

El and co are now in their final year at the Scholomance and despite their best efforts at the end of last term, the school still has more surprised to reveal and throw at them. I really can't say much more than that in summary because honestly, anything more is too much.

Things I liked:
- Galadriel. Her name, her heritage, her references to Wales. Her absolute inability to recognise when someone likes her for her. The development and fluctuation of her moral compass throughout is brilliantly depicted.
- Orion Lake. He reminds me a little of Percy Jackson in personality? I might be alone in that. I was really happy to see his character develop; he felt a lot more three dimensional in this instalment. He's also what I like to call an absolute Muffin -insert heart eyes here!-
-The general fleshing out of all side characters was very welcome!
-Some of the creatures in the Scholomance are described in such terrifying detail that I'm unsure if that's a good or bad thing for me personally but I'm going with good!
-The ending. This falls in to both likes and dislikes. But when I tell you that ending had me gasping, furious and needing the third book pronto! All in all I feel like that was the intended response even though I'm mad.

Things I disliked:
- Novik loves her background information whether it's historical, social or political and we get a lot of this in TLG. I think some of this info could stand to be toned down as sometimes feels like an info-dump.
- That ENDING. I'm still mad!

Will I reread? Yes! Solid 4/5 from me

The trilogy continues with a terrific second installment. 4/5 stars.

[Short summary for anyone short on time: if you read and enjoyed Book 1- particularly El’s first person narration – you’ll enjoy this. Get it now!]

I’ve been a fan of Naomi Novik’s books for a while. But with the first book in the Scholmance series, A Deadly Education, I was delighted to finally be able to give one of her books a 5-star rating when others have come very close.

And with the fantastic cliffhanger at the end of Book 1, I was really looking forward to Book 2, and I’m happy to say that The Last Graduate didn’t disappoint.

This is another brilliant installment in the series in which El – our snarky first person narrator – and the Scholomance itself are the dual stars of the show. And thankfully we get more background and character development for both.

My mind boggles at how complete a world Novik has created with the Scholomance. She’s really thought of everything. There’s not a plot hole in sight. Also, when it comes to creating disgusting and horrifyingly nasty creatures, her imagination is apparently boundless and I don’t know whether to find that worrying or amazing, so I think I’ll have to settle on a bit of both.

If I have a criticism: like all middle books in a trilogy, at times it felt we were being asked to tread water. And the complicated socio-political shennanigans of the outside world of wizarding sometimes seemed a bit heavy. However, I have an inkling all these details will turn out to be important in book 3.

Without spoiling anything, I was delighted the book ended where it did. I wasn’t quite so pleased with the GINORMOUS cliffhanger, but I was happy overall as I thought it was going to end just before the kids graduated, which would have annoyed me as the entire book had been building up to that. So while it’s painful to have to wait a year to find out what happens next, I think the author left the story in just the right place.

As I mentioned in my review of Book 1, this is a YA series. And in that context, I have to say what a tremendous achievement it is that Novik has managed to write a sex scene in this book which is emotional and clearly a sex scene without actually describing the characters having sex. Honestly, all writers need to study it as a brilliant piece of creative writing.

Overall: another great installment in a brilliant YA fantasy series. However, if you haven’t started the Scholomance yet and can’t stand cliffhangers, you might want to wait a year until Book 3 is out and then binge the whole series in one go!

I am a huge fan of Naomi Novik's YA fantasy novels, especially Spinning Silver and Uprooted. Her Scholomance series is a little bit different, set at a dark school for magic. Unlike Hogwarts, this school seems to actively want to kill off its students!

The Last Graduate is the second book in the Scholomance series. It's like a cross between those witch/wizard school stories, like Harry Potter and The Worst Witch, with a hefty dose of The Hunger Games thrown in, and is both brutal and a little bit gruesome at times. Sure, the students at this school are here to learn magic, but they are also here to survive at any cost, which encourages an every-student-for-themselves mentality.

El and her friends are now seniors with the prospect of graduation looming ahead of them. You'd think they'd be delighted to leave the school far behind, except the graduation ceremony is the most deadly of all, with every mal (monster) waiting to devour them as soon as they enter the graduation hall. The practise runs are getting deadlier and deadlier, El can see no way for the students to survive unless they do something really radical... Like, work together?

This series is completely thrilling, edge-of-your-seat stuff, with El battling monsters and spells hurtling at her from every direction. The finale is amazing but (be warned) ends on a humongous cliff-hanger. The amount of work Naomi has put into creating this world, with no detail overlooked, is awe-inspiring. It reminded me a little of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. With that book the backstories were dropped into footnotes, and I did sometimes feel that all the detail (fabulous as it was) slowed down The Last Graduate just when I wanted to race ahead.

I loved the attitude of El (Student most like to say: 'Get lost, I can rescue myself'), who has spent most of her life being viewed with suspicion (thanks to her great-great grandmother's prophecy predicting she's going to cause death and destruction wherever she goes), and is unused to taking a hero's role. Orion, who has spent most of his life training to be a hero, is adorably confused. And El's familiar, Precious the mouse, is sooo cute!

One of my favourite reads this year! I can't wait for the next one!


Thank you to Naomi Novik and Del Ray/Cornerstone/Random House for my copy of this book, which I requested via NetGalley and reviewed voluntarily.

El, Orion and their friends have made it to their final year in the Scholomance. All they need to do now is make it through graduation alive, however the school is ramping up its attacks and making it look less and less likely that El can get her friends out. That is until she tosses the use book out and plays her own game.

I loved the first book in the Scholomance series so had to request this one when I saw it on NetGalley.

It took my a little while to find my feet again, I think I would have benefited from refreshing myself of the events of book 1. I had it in my head El and friends were heading into their second year but they definitely aren't. There's plenty of reminders to help make sure you're up to speed though if, like me, you're out of touch.

It didn't take long for me to be hooked again. El is definitely a unique protagonist. Even though she has settled in and has friends now she's still incredibly abrasive. She has a very strong sense of loyalty and refuses to tolerate anyone taking advantage of her friends. She's also really hard on herself at times.

We get to learn more about El's magic and see how powerful she really is in this book. I thought Novik had created a clever storyline with this and how El being who she is impacts on events and how the Scholomance is operating.

If I had one criticism it would be that this is a series I think could have been stretched over more books and given much richer details of the world building and magic. There was a few times when I felt we were skipping forward. It's not often I complain a book is too fast paced, and I guess the only reason it bothers me here is that I love the story and the setting so more books (or longer books) would be amazing.

That aside though this is definitely another solid instalment in the series, and boy that ending sets up for an epic next book!

Thanks to NetGalley, Random House UK, Cornerstone and Del Ray for an arc in exchange for an honest review.

I couldn’t get into this book at all but the main reason is because I haven’t read the first book in this series. So a lot of things were confusing and hard to understand. Might try this again if I ever get round to reading the previous book, so possible re-edit of review in future.

Following on from the events of A Deadly Education, El and her allies are now in their final year at the Scholomance. However, things have taken an unexpected turn. Instead of attacking the students across the school as usual, the mals appear to be targeting just El, almost as though the school is trying to push her into becoming a malificer, or get rid of her altogether. But El won’t give in. In fact, she may just be pushed into saving everyone…

The Scholomance series is like a dreamy cross between Harry Potter and The Hunger Games, with students in a magical school fighting to survive through their graduation. Book #1 very quickly became one of my favourite books of all time, and Book #2 managed to live up to the standard.

El is still a totally brilliant character. She’s smart, funny, bad-tempered and a complete hero. She is by far my favourite YA-fantasy heroine and has yet to fall under any of the usual failings of YA protagonists. I also enjoyed reading more about her friends, Aad, Lui, Chloe and Orion, and I loved the introduction of new character, Leisel.

The one and only vaguely negative thing I can say about The Last Graduate is that not all that much really happened during the first two-thirds of the book. There was enough plot progression to keep things ticking along, but it was largely just El fuming about what she was having to deal with. Fortunately, the characters, the magic, the writing quality, and the general premise was enough to keep me completely gripped.

Without giving anything away, one of the most note-worthy aspects of this series are the incredible cliffhangers. If you thought the ending to Book #1 was shocking, just wait until you’ve finished this one!

The second book in the Scholomance series feels more plot driven than the first, with Galadriel - ‘El’ - and her allies focused on getting through graduation alive. This means that they need to hone their skills in a series of tests the Scholomance throws at them. El begins to feel like the school is against her, but soon realises that there’s more going on than she thought.

The story picks up directly after the first book, where El receives an ominous warning from her mother. She soon puts this to the back of her mind, however, as she must focus on finishing her lessons and helping her friends through the Scholomance’s graduation simulations. These are a series of daunting tests of strength, skill, and endurance. El’s role in graduation preparations develops significantly as the plot ramps up in the final two thirds of the book. The story grows into more than the senior class graduating as El’s unique skills come into play.

While it is more plot focused, there are still lots of asides from El about the way enclaves - or magical communities - and other aspects of the world Novik has created work. This feature was present in the first book too, often slowing down the plot. I’m unsure how much of this information will be relevant for the final book, but I suspect Novik wouldn’t include it if it wasn’t going to become relevant. I also wonder if El’s grandmother’s prophecy of destruction is going to come into play in the final book.

Without a doubt, the strongest element of this series is El. Novik gives her heroine the same name as Tolkien’s elven queen. I can only imagine that she was inspired by the dark vision Galadriel sees of herself if she were to accept the ring when Frodo offers it to her. Novik’s El has an affinity for terrible dark magic. She could destroy the Scholomance and everyone in it if she wanted to. What’s so interesting about her is that she very much wants the opposite of that, and this book explores El’s character in a more concrete way than book one does. In book one, she was sarcastic and closed off, and wouldn’t allow anyone to get close, while still very much desiring closeness. Now she has allies, friends, even, and though she’s still rather prickly and sharp tongued, there’s a deep level of pleasure and gratitude in her that she’s no longer alone. In El, we see the effect of her dark magical burden combine with the terror of life in the Scholomance, and it’s entirely not surprising that she is the way she is.

El narrates the entire story from her own perspective, and her conversational style and sarcastic tone are enjoyable to read. It’s also enjoyable to see her become more open to trusting other people. There are moments where she shows her vulnerability and hopes for the future that are nice to read. It’s also really interesting to note the progression from where El started the first book and where she ends this book.

We learn more about some of the other characters too. El’s friends Liu and Aadhya are fleshed out further, and the bond between them grows. Her relationship with the monster killer Orion develops also, and we learn that he wants more than to hunt monsters. It’s unfortunate that Orion disappears for a good portion of the book, though, as I feel the emotional payoff of the story isn’t quite strong enough because of his absence. We needed to know him better, I think, for the story to work.

Once again, Novik has left us with a cliffhanger. It will be interesting to see how this is resolved in the final book. Hopefully we won’t have too long to wait for it to come out.

I. Am. Obsessed.

I really enjoyed last year’s A Deadly Education. I loved the sarcasm, humor and El in general as a protagonist. After that cliffhanger, I was a little nervous about picking up this sequel considering how much I liked the first instalment. I really shouldn’t have been.

The Last Graduate picks up almost immediately where A Deadly Education left off. El and her classmates are now seniors, and have to prepare themselves for the historically bloody graduation ceremony. I’m not going to reveal more, but I promise you you’re in for a ride!

I loved The Last Graduate even more than the first one. Even though it’s a little slower paced at the beginning, it completely sucked me into the dark academia-setting of the Scholomance. El is still an amazing, witty protagonist, and grows so much throughout this book. She’s still sarcastic and rude, but she tries her best to make alliances with others even though she isn’t sure she likes that.

One of the things I was hoping to see more of after finishing A Deadly Education was more Aadya and Liu, and boy did Naomi Novik deliver! El’s friends received a lot more screentime and their friendship was my favourite part of the book. I felt that in general there was a lot more focus on character relationships and this is where the book really shines.

The story (especially the last half!) is action-packed, full of clever twist and turns. There’s a lot going on in this world, but the banter and the snark really balance this out and made this a page-turner which I finished in a day.

However, if the infodumps in the first book didn’t work for you, this one might not either. El might pause in the middle of a sequence to explain paragraphs of info to the reader and I personally love it but I can see why this wouldn’t work for everyone.

Overall, I loved this book, and I honestly regret getting an arc because now I’ll have to wait longer for part 3. I think this is a great follow-up to A Deadly Education and I think fans will be delighted to read this sequel.

Also, if you thought the cliffhanger of the first book was cruel, you are not prepared.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for sending me this arc in exchange for an honest review.

Second in the now-a-trilogy that began with A Deadly Education, The Last Graduate starts where that book ended: in the cafeteria of the Scholomance, with a horde of freshmen still reeling from their magical arrival at this wizardly school that hangs in the void, and El and her friends now the senior class. Which means that, in just under a year, they'll be braving the Graduation Hall (did their attempt to fix the cleansing system work?) and the maleficaria that lurk there.

Though this year might be different. El slowly realises that the Scholomance is focussing on her, giving her a challenging schedule and a group of freshmen to protect, and channelling mals in her direction. Is it trying to nudge her towards the dark destiny she's struggled not to fulfil, or does it have another agenda?

El's classmates are realising just how powerful she is, and she's tentatively forming more alliances and friendships. Her relationship with Orion Lake, the insanely powerful mal-hunter who actually gains mana from killing maleficaria, is also developing. (El's familiar, a small white mouse, does not approve of Orion, and nor does her mother. El keeps telling herself that she doesn't approve of him either.) Orion has grown up both lauded and exploited: valued for his power, taken for granted by those who expect his protection and barely lift a finger to help themselves. El, no stranger to being isolated by her powers, begins to recognise how much damage his upbringing has caused. And she is increasingly uncomfortable with an educational setup that rewards selfishness and murderous intent.

Meanwhile, there are rumours of catastrophe from the outside world, which serve to make the students even nervier, uttterly ignorant as they are of current affairs. Even while she's tentatively planning life after graduation, El is unsure what she'll find when -- if -- she makes it out of the doors of the Graduation Hall.

I enjoyed this very much, though I noted a couple of plot points that could (maybe should) have been foreshadowed in the first book (for instance, the school's motto). It felt more hopeful than the first volume, with a strong theme of change, solidarity, revolution. El is maturing, less prickly and more receptive to overtures of friendship, and her relationship with Orion is changing them both. I enjoyed the friendship between El, Aadhya and Liu, and the shifting feuds and alliances of the senior class. The worldbuilding is lavishly detailed (El does like to digress) and the moments of beauty in a grim and dangerous setting add poignancy to the sheer grind of survival.

This book ends on an appalling cliffhanger, and now I have to wait until next year to find out whether that last spell worked ... and whether we've seen the last of some characters.

Thanks to NetGalley for the free review copy, in exchange for this honest review.

If you enjoyed A Deadly Education, I have no doubt you will enjoy The Last Graduate. It continues the fascinating premise of a school like no other. One which has the sole purpose of trying to protect magical teenagers, whilst simultaneously managing to put them in frequent mortal peril! El's final year takes it to a whole new level of madness and danger. The world building within the scholomance is brilliant and I particularly enjoyed learning about its original design and intentions.

Just like the first book, this one does end with a pretty big cliffhanger. It still has satisfying resolutions for a lot of what builds up over the book so I wasn't too frustrated, but if you really can't stand a dramatic cliffhanger ending, perhaps wait until we have a date for book 3 before you start reading this one!

A highly recommended sequel for fans of A Deadly Education. Action-packed, intriguing and kept me guessing right up until the last second (and beyond!)

The ending made me screech in horror but I am delighted there will be a rd book! I did find the world building on the heavier this side but the voice made it worthwhile

As with A Deadly Education, book 1 the Scholomance, I liked the characters, especially El, who you get to know a lot better in this book. The world building and setting is good. But I still cannot get on with the writing style used. It’s really slow going and long winded. I think if you enjoyed A Deadly Education then you’ll enjoy this book also.

I adored A Deadly Education, which reminded me of one of my favourite books of all time - Robin McKinley's Sunshine - so I was very keen to re-enter the world of the Scholomance. A Deadly Education introduced us to El, a deeply traumatised teenage girl who can barely keep her penchant for destructive magic under control, is certain that everybody hates her, and tries to hide all of this from her peers and from the reader by keeping up an ironic running commentary about everything she knows about the Scholomance and how to survive there. By the end of the novel, El finally has friends and allies, as well as a sort-of-boyfriend in Orion Lake, the 'hero' of her school year because of his ability to hunt and kill 'mals', the monsters that threaten all the students. The Last Graduate picks up right where A Deadly Education left off, when El receives a warning note from her mother telling her to stay away from Orion. But what will this mean for her as she enters her senior year at the Scholomance and prepares for the biggest ordeal of all - graduation?

The Last Graduate wasn't, for me, as good as A Deadly Education, but it's a strong middle novel that takes some unexpected and thoughtful turns, even if it ended on exactly the cliffhanger I'd been anticipating. Partly because of the logic of the plot, it is oddly paced; for the first half of the book, we don't really find out anything more than we already knew from A Deadly Education, although Novik does expand the worldbuilding in interesting ways (I particularly liked the enchanted gym). A lot of our protagonists' chief concerns are also rendered unimportant by various turns of events, which works very well on a character level, as we understand how El comes to the conclusions she does, but is a little frustrating in terms of narrative momentum. Having said that, the last quarter of the novel is completely gripping, and satisfying in the sense that a lot of stuff happens that I'd normally expect to play out in the final book of a trilogy, so Novik's left herself a lot of space for surprises in the last installment.

My other slight hesitation about The Last Graduate is the way that El's character develops. A Deadly Education worked so well for me because El couldn't accept her inner goodness; in The Last Graduate, I had had a bit too much of her inner goodness by the end. Again, this is partly dictated by plot and partly by her developing relationship with Orion, and there's clearly more to come on this in the final novel, so I'll reserve judgement for now. Having said that, I suspect that my final opinion on The Last Graduate will be very much shaped by what happens in the third book in the trilogy (unlike A Deadly Education, which I can still read happily as a stand-alone), and so, although I enjoyed this very much, the jury is still out.

After reading the first book, I knew I'd have to read the second and however many come after because that was a wild ride of a book and this one does not disappoint in the slightest as we are given moment after incredible moment until the very end of the book.

I still love these characters, which develop and grow a great deal throughout the whole of this story. The development of El as the outsider to being the person that she becomes in this book is a real arc and I really appreciate her so much, with every sassy moment and sarcastic tongue-lashing that she brings in this book - she's an anti-hero to an extent and I like her for it.

Plot-wise this book has some incredible moments and a finale that leaves you reeling, the last chapter of this book is just brilliant and you can't leave me like this, Naomi, it's just rude. The school as a setting really throws everything it's got at the students and it really shows throughout this book but also this book is very much dependent on its characters and their own needs as they move towards graduation and Novik's way of expressing that frustration and urgency to get out adds to the tension of the story.

I do love these books, I am not gonna lie, they are dark, they are brutal and they come at you with moments that hit you like a train, but I'd be hit by that train any day.

Just so good, go read it.

What a sequal! I really enjoyed this one. It was fast paced and exciting. I really enjoyed the writing style of this and the previous book, it reads to me how people actually would think in that situation. I also loved the little nods to Wales, a bit bias there. El and Co are preparing for graduation ahead of the new school year and developing their magic. But after clearing a lot of the mals at the end of the previous book, the school seems to be just setting them on El. They begin to practice their graduation runs and building alliances, it was interesting to see relationships developing and alliances being struck that fit their plans. The school has other things in mind however, it seems to be sending a message to El. She decides that on graduation she will try to save absolutely everyone. They hatch a plan to get everyone out and begin to work together. This was so exciting I really enjoyed it. That ending though! I need the next one please!

I really enjoyed “A deadly education”, the first in the Scholomance trilogy, so I was really looking forward to “The last graduate”. With one slight reservation, it did not disappoint.

As graduation nears, the level of threat posed by the Scholomance grows ever stronger. We discover that it is not a mechanical place, but is sentient. The students have to be very clever to avoid the maleficaria (magical monsters) which increasingly haunt the school.

As with “A deadly education” the book’s strength is in it’s characters. El is clearly the focus of the book, and we see everything through her lens, but this time round her friends Aadhya and Liu get their moment in the sun, and hero protagonist Orion starts to come into his own, as a fully-fledged character, rather than as a template or foil for El. Other, previously minor characters like Chloe are far more rounded, and the whole cast of characters is much fuller than in “A deadly education”.

I’ve talked about the characters, but the plot drives forward at a hectic pace, no sooner has school started than graduation looms.

All in all, this was a fabulous read. My slight reservation? I have to wait another twelve months to find out what happens at the end!
Thanks to Penguin Random House/Del Rey and Netgalley for the proof.