Naomi Novik is one of my favorite authors, and The Scholomance Series is hands down the best thing I’ve read from her so far.
El is a murderous evil witch by birth who can destroy cities with minimal effort but has trouble doing basic spells. She’s trying to help and not be wicked despite her rare talent. Orion is her male counterpart, an evil of historical proportions who does good but has his monstrous nature slips. There’s something between them but the book is not a love story. It is an epic urban fantasy. The joy comes from discovering the world, the magical systems, and of course, from El getting stronger. The Golden Enclaves also highlights Liesel, whose talent is to organize people. It’s cool to have a superhuman witch but I find it even cooler to see a regular human channel the change with her brain.
5*/5
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These have been on my ‘maybe’ pile for a bit. I’ll have to bump them up.
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