📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 The Last Graduate
AUTHOR: Naomi Novik @naominovik
Publisher: Del Rey Books @delreybooks
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐢
Published: September 28, 2021
The Review 📚 The Last Graduate
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- I had recently read the book that comes first in this series. I enjoyed it and was excited to read this one. Thanks to @netgalley and Del Rey Books for allowing me to read this ahead of publication.
💜 What I liked:
- The story continues with El and Orion leading the senior class to prepare for graduation while denying that they have feelings for eachother. The community of characters continues to grow. If you like fantasy and creepy creature fighting, this book is for you.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- Unfortunately, this book suffers a bit from the “second book” slump. There is aso much explaining that it lags and the action scenes are semi-repetitive. But stay to the end for a monster (see what I did there) cliff hanger.
🚦 My face at the end: 🙀
💭 5 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Fantasy Sequel
- 2. Rich characters
- 3. Grotesque monsters
- 4. Academic setting
- 5. Pet Mice
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- El and Orion are back to fight some monsters just to survive until graduation where they need to make one final kill with their classmates in order to make it out of school.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.
📘 Summary 📚 The Last Graduate
A budding dark sorceress determined not to use her formidable powers uncovers yet more secrets about the workings of her world in the stunning sequel to A Deadly Education, the start of Naomi Novik’s groundbreaking crossover series.
At the Scholomance, El, Orion, and the other students are faced with their final year—and the looming specter of graduation, a deadly ritual that leaves few students alive in its wake. El is determined that her chosen group will survive, but it is a prospect that is looking harder by the day as the savagery of the school ramps up. Until El realizes that sometimes winning the game means throwing out all the rules . . .