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#1022190 Fri 19/11/21 19:44 UTC
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Magic is real, and there are creatures out there that feast on wizards and witches to survive.

And who are the tenderest (and easiest) magic users to eat? Young ones. It used to be that one out of every 10 young mages were eaten. Things are much better now. Now chances of surviving are up from 10% to a whopping 40%!

How was this amazing feat done, you might ask. Wizards banded together at one point to create a school for magic. Fully automated, no teachers or staff needed. Students were transported to this school, the Scholomance, to begin a four year course of study in magic.

Creating the school did several useful things.
1) It gave more children the chance to grow up and survive.
2) It gives hands-on practice in dealing with, defeating, and surviving various magical nasties.
3) With all those tender young magicians in one place, acting as bait, magical creatures flocked there, leaving the world a safer place to live for older magicians. The world is not safe, just safer.


Into this school the story opens on our heroine, Galadriel, a Junior. While everyone who does magic has some affinity (working with exotic components, alchemy, creation of artifacts) Galadriel, or 'El' as her non-existent friends would call her, has a talent for... mass destruction.

Welcome to A Deadly Education!

This book is cute, funny, with a protagonist who just wants to get through school, get out (alive), and make a name for herself (without killing and enslaving hoards of people)... but it is hard to make alliances when she keeps being saved by Orion Lake, the school's resident hero.

Hogwarts of a different nature, give A Deadly Education a try... and let me know what you thought of it!


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[[ Magic is real, and there are creatures out there that feast on wizards and witches to survive. ]]

Well that explains why there are so few of those 'monsters' are out there ... there aren't enough 'magic users' to feed very many <weg>

It =does= look interesting <g> Will have to check it out!!


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The second book is out in the shops in time for Christmas

Mina #1022256 Sat 20/11/21 17:20 UTC
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Angrboða currently reading the second book, just as fun as the first one smile


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I've bought this for my mother for Xmas. I thought I'd try her on something more humorous than the epic fantasy she usually enjoys.

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Nem, I hope she likes it... let me know what she thinks!


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