num_pages: 256
description: The eagerly anticipated sequel to the highly acclaimed Vita Nostra takes readers to the next stage in Sasha Samokhinas journey in a richly imagined world of dark academia in which grammar is magicand not all magic is good.In Vita Nostra Sasha Samokhina a third-year student at the Institute of Special Technologies was in the middle of taking the final exam that would transform her into a part of the Great Speech. After defying her teachers expectations Sasha emerges from the exam as Password a unique and powerful part of speech. Accomplished and ready to embrace her new role she soon learns her powers threaten the old world and despite her hard work Sasha is set to fail.However Farit Kozhennikov Sashas dark mentor finds a way to bring her out of the oblivion and back to the Institute for his own selfish purposes. Subsequently Sasha must correct her mistakes before she is allowed to graduate and is forced to do what few are asked and even less achieve: to succeed and reverberatebecoming a part of the Great Speech and being one of the special few who dictate reality. If she fails she faces a fate far worse than death: the choice is hers. Years have passed around the Instituteand the numerous realities that have spread from Sashas first failurebut it is only her fourth year of learning what role she will play in shaping the world. Her teachers despise and fear her her classmates distrust her and a growing lovefor a young pilot with no affiliation to the schoolis fraught because a relationship means leverage and Farit wont hesitate to use it against her.Planes crash all the time. Which means Sasha needs to rewrite the world so that cant happen...or fail for good.
language: English
title: Assassin of Reality
publisher: Harper Voyager