The Last Graduate (The Scholomance Book 2)

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## About the Book

* Genres: Magic School Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Dark Fantasy
* Theme:
* Narrative style: First person, limited.

## Description

**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*...**

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 . . .

*In Wisdom, Shelter*. That’s the official motto of the Scholomance. I suppose you could even argue that it’s true—only the wisdom is hard to come by, so the shelter’s rather scant.

Our beloved school does its best to devour all its students—but now that I’ve reached my senior year and have actually won myself a handful of allies, it’s suddenly developed a very particular craving for me. And even if I somehow make it through the endless waves of maleficaria that it keeps throwing at me in between grueling homework assignments, I haven’t any idea how my allies and I are going to make it through the graduation hall alive.

Unless, of course, I finally accept my foretold destiny of dark sorcery and destruction. That would certainly let me sail straight out of here. The course of wisdom, surely.

But I’m not giving in—not to the mals, not to fate, and especially not to the Scholomance. I’m going to get myself and my friends out of this hideous place for good—even if it’s the last thing I do.

**With keen insight and mordant humor, Novik reminds us that sometimes it is not enough to rewrite the rules—sometimes, you need to toss out the entire rulebook.**

## Additional Info

### Characters

#### Seniors in the Scholomance

* Galadriel Higgins aka El,
* Orion Lake – New York enclaver
* Chloe Rasmussen - enclave: New York
* Magnus Tebow - enclave: New York (allies with Sung and Jung Ho)
* Jermaine - New York enclaver
* Scott - New York enclaver
* Aadhya – from New Jersey, independent.
* Guo Yi Liu - independent, no enclave
* Nkoyo - independent, no enclave
* Cora - independent, no enclave
* Jowani - independent, no enclave
* Ibrahim Haddad - independent, no enclave
* Yaakov - independent, no enclave
* Liesel - German, Valedictorian
* Alfie - London enclave
* Jamaal - Dubai enclave, Ibrahim's friend
* Ravi - Jaipur enclaver
* Wang Yuyan - Shanghai enclave, twelve languages
* Hu Zixuan - Shanghai enclave, artificer
* Khamis Mwinyi - Zanzibar enclaver allied with Nkoyo, along with Janice, Fareeda, and James
* Myrthe Christopher - Santa Barbara enclaver

#### Freshmen in the Scholomance

* Guo Yi Zheng - Liu's cousin, shares homeroom with El
* Guo Yi Min - Liu's cousin
* Pamyla - from Newark
* Aaron - from Manchester
* Sudarat - Bangkok enclave, shares homeroom with El
* Jingxi - shares homeroom with El
* Sunita - shares homeroom with El
* Leigh - Midwest(ish) American girl whom El introduces to Sudarat

#### Nonhumans (Liu's Mice)

* Xiao Xing - Liu's familiar
* Precious - El's familiar
* Mistoffeles - Chloe's familiar
* Pinky - Aadhya's familiar
* Liu mentions she will train mice for her freshmen cousins, but we don't know names for these

#### Characters outside the Scholomance (mentioned or in flashbacks)

* Gwen Higgins - El's mother
* Udaya - Aadhya's older sister (deceased)
* Nani Aryahi and Daadi Chaitali - Aadhya's maternal and paternal grandmothers