An Enclave, a banded group of witches and wizards who work together and protect each other, are the only people who could use her talent and thus, are her only chance of survival. Her magical affinity is world destroying, powerful sorcery desirous of murdering thousands and leveling cities. The more powerful you are, the more delicious they find you, and she’s an alchemic nuclear bomb. In a world where monsters gobble up the magically gifted, the chances of surviving as a lone enchanter are slim. And El desperately needs their attention. Not only will it make her a target for all the maleficaria (wizard eaters) roaming the school in the hope of making a tasty snack out of the budding sorcerers in the building, it will prevent her from attracting the attention of an Enclave. She’d forgiven him for dropping an entire lab ceiling on her head a few months earlier while he was fighting a chimaera, but she can’t allow him to keep ‘rescuing’ her. When Orion Lake kills a soul-eater in Galadriel ‘El’ Higgins’ dorm room, Orion not only steals her chance to show the Scholomance just how capable El is of defending herself, he waltzes out to receive the glory and accolades, leaving her to deal with the odorous, slimy mess he left behind. A YA tale about friends, love and growing up, this charming story has a lot to offer. Boarding schools for the peculiar have been all the rage since a certain bespectacled young wizard achieved global fame, and the latest offering in this genre is A Deadly Education.

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