A Deadly Education
core novel 2020 The Scholomance
Record
| First published | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.93 (232,384 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 320 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780593128480 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
A Deadly Education opens the Scholomance trilogy inside the Scholomance itself, a magical school built within the Void, a space outside ordinary reality, where young wizards are drawn from around the world at fourteen to study relatively safely until they turn eighteen, cut off from the outside except for the perilous graduation gates. Galadriel "El" Higgins, a half-Welsh, half-Indian sorceress in her junior year, narrates her daily struggle to survive both the school's shifting, sentient dangers and the brutal social hierarchy among her classmates, all while carrying a destructive magical affinity that seems to confirm an ominous prophecy that she is fated to become a maleficer who destroys entire enclaves.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Scholomance
- Series: The Scholomance core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Naomi Novik
Awards (verified)
- Readers' Choice Awards (Fantasy), 2020: nominated; Reader-vote finalist round; did not win (winner: House of Earth and Blood).
- Lodestar Award (Best YA Book), 2021: nominated
- Dragon Award (Best Young Adult / Middle Grade Novel), 2021: nominated; Finalist; did not win (winner: A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking).
Notes
- From the series record (The Scholomance): Clean linear trilogy, single first-person narrator (Galadriel 'El' Higgins) throughout. No companion material found (no uncollected short fiction, no guide books, no graphic adaptations).
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Scholomance: position 1 of 3: next The Last Graduate (2021)
Sources
- Wikipedia: The Scholomance Trilogy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deadly_Education
- Locus, 2021 Lodestar finalists
- Scalzi/Whatever, 2021 Dragon Award finalists
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