Fantasy
A Deadly Education
At a magical school with no teachers and monsters hiding in every corridor, a sarcastic student with a gift for destruction just wants to survive until graduation. Then the most popular boy in school keeps saving her life.
- First published
- 2020
- Pace
- medium
- Length
- medium
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you like a grim, snarky take on the magic school genre with a prickly narrator and clever worldbuilding.
Skip this if you want a cosy school story or dislike a narration that heavily explains how the magic works.
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