A Deadly Education

Excuse me, but... WHAT IS THIS? WHAT IS WITH THAT CLIFF-HANGER AT THE END? That killed me. I've heard people talk about the ending of this book and how it was really UGH but that left me with so many questions and I'm trying to figure out some possible situations, but I just can't.

This book is really awesome, the idea is truly unique and I enjoyed it a lot. The Scholomance is a school for people gifted with magic, but it's not an usual school. It wants to kill its students, there are threats to their lives at every step and the monsters that lurk in the hallways are no joke. Everyone knows that they must do anything in order to survive, and that's exactly what our main character, Galadriel El, is trying to do.

This book is her journey through her sophomore year and how she tries not to give in to her really strong magic, a magic so powerful that could make her graduation easy, but she might kill the other students and that's not something El wants. She's a good person and she doesn't use magic in a bad way, she doesn't hurt other beings (besides the monsters), but the problem is that all her powerful spells include mass-destruction.

I had fun reading about El and all the awesome (and creepy) things happening at the Scholomance. Her bedroom and the black wall (the void) that's inside every students' bedroom. Her making friends with people who used to avoid her. Slowly falling in love with a guy she despised at first. How she tried to save the world.

And back to that ending, I cannot wait to read the next book and see what that was about!