Bloodthirsty maleficaria all gather in the bottom-most “graduation” hall (the area between the school and the gates to reality).
The problem? After the school was constructed over a century ago, something went wrong with the wiring. When that happens at the end of every year, the no-longer-so-tasty-to-maleficaria graduating seniors can return safely to the real world. The original intention was that the Scholomance’s annual fire cleaning/purge would kill the maleficaria gathered in the bottom. The magic school isn’t in our reality it’s partially in the void and “above” the real world.
The idea is that you gather all these teens in one location and the maleficaria are attracted to only one spot. The survival rate is very low, so wizards built the Scholomance in Wales. If teens are left in the outside world, maleficaria will kill and sometimes eat these teens. The basic premise: teenage wizards undergoing puberty are especially attractive/tasty to maleficaria (demons/monsters of varying power and creepiness). And one more warning: Be prepared for an extended period of mourning: the sequel to this book isn’t out until next year and you will scream at the last line of the book. It’s nothing like Uprooted or Spinning Silver. So let’s get right to it! I don’t think A Deadly Education will work for everyone, even Novik fans. No matter how much I try, I can’t scrub it out because exciting details keep invading my mundane day-to-day thoughts. It’s the type of story that will exist rent-free in my brain for the foreseeable future. I’ve been thinking nonstop about A Deadly Education for the past week and have been frantically messaging speculation/theories to other readers. Naomi Novik knows how to write a freaking good fantasy novel. CW/TW: murder, violence, and gore surrounding teenagers.
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