The specter of graduation looms large as Naomi Novik's ground-breaking New York Times bestselling series continues. In Wisdom, Shelter. That's the official motto of the Scholomance. I suppose you could argue that it's true--only the wisdom is hard to come by, so the shelter's rather scant. Our beloved school does its best to devour all its students--but now that I've reached my senior year and have actually won myself a handful of allies, it's suddenly developed a very particular craving for me. And even if I somehow make it through the endless waves of maleficaria that it keeps throwing at me in between grueling homework assignments, I haven't any idea how my allies and I are going to make it through the graduation hall alive. Unless, of course, I finally accept my foretold destiny of dark sorcery and destruction. That would certainly let me sail straight out of here. The course of wisdom, surely. But I'm not giving in--not to the mals, not to fate, and especially not to the Scholoman

Una hechicera oscura en ciernes decidida a no usar sus formidables poderes descubre aún más secretos sobre el funcionamiento de su mundo en la impresionante secuela de A Deadly Education, el comienzo de la innovadora serie cruzada de Naomi Novik. En Scholomance, El, Orion y los demás estudiantes se enfrentan a su último año y al espectro inminente de la matriculación, un ritual mortal que deja con vida a pocos estudiantes después. El está decidida a que su grupo salga con vida, pero es una perspectiva que cada día se ve más difícil a medida que aumenta el salvajismo de la escuela. Hasta que El se da cuenta de que a veces ganar el juego significa descartar todas las reglas.