School of Shards
core novel 2024 Vita Nostra
Record
| First published | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.79 (845 ratings, collected 2026-08-25) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780063225480 |
Synopsis
The concluding volume of the trilogy, School of Shards finds Sasha Samokhina now serving as provost of the institute that once trained her, only to face a crisis among its own students, who are struggling to master the same demanding curriculum she herself endured years earlier. Beneath this immediate problem lies a deeper danger: the underlying linguistic structure that gives the institute's reality its stability is degrading, threatening the world Sasha now oversees. To address the crisis, Sasha must recruit several people who carry fragments of her former life, forcing her to weigh how far she is willing to go, and what she is willing to risk, to keep the reality she helped build from collapsing entirely.
Where it sits
- Universe: Vita Nostra
- Series: Vita Nostra core; position 3 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 3 of 3: previous Assassin of Reality (2021)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Vita Nostra
- Reader-rating platform series page: Vita Nostra (English)
- https://reactormag.com/excerpts-school-of-shards-by-marina-sergey-dyachenko/
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