Magically gifted children around the world who are coming into their magic are tempting little treats for Maleficarum, the creatures who want to eat them for the manna which is both their life-force and their magic. To try and protect their children, as well as teach them how to use their magic, the adult witches and wizards running the Enclaves (safe communities hidden from the Mals) around the world send their children to the Scholomance.
Four years of learning magic and fighting off the monsters which try to eat them help the magically gifted children develop their skills. The school has no teachers, no holidays, nothing more than the assignments each student receives and the monsters who prowl the halls day and night. Survival depends on creating an alliance to fight their way through the graduation hall full of the biggest and baddest Mals who cannot squeeze their way into the safety of the school.
El believes in the concept of balance and, when Orion Lake saves more children in their generation than have ever made it out of the school before, the balance is upset. Magic demands the balance be restored, but at what cost.
Novik's new world follows a misfit who has been plagued by her differences her entire life. But she finds those differences fuel her ability to make changes in their world.
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