Assassin of Reality
core novel 2021 Vita Nostra
Record
| First published | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.67 (3,294 ratings, collected 2026-08-25) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780063225428 |
Synopsis
Assassin of Reality continues Sasha Samokhina's story from Vita Nostra, following her further into the demanding and often disorienting curriculum of the institute she was compelled to attend, as the true stakes and nature of what the school is training its students to become continue to come into focus. Originally published in Russian in 2021 under a title translating to Correcting Errors, and released in English translation in 2023, the novel builds directly on the first book's premise of an institute whose lessons reshape its students far beyond ordinary education, pushing Sasha toward choices that test how much of herself she is willing to risk for the power she has been given.
Where it sits
- Universe: Vita Nostra
- Series: Vita Nostra core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Sergey Dyachenko
- Author: Marina Dyachenko
Notes
- From the series record (Vita Nostra): Original Russian sequence (Metamorphoses) ran longer; the English-translation sequence (Julia Meitov Hersey, HarperVoyager) collects books 1, 4, and 5 of the Russian original as a self-contained trilogy, following the translator/publisher's own packaging rather than the Russian numbering.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Vita Nostra: position 2 of 3: previous Vita Nostra (2007) · next School of Shards (2024)
Sources
← Vita Nostra dossier · All universes
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