But the big emotions of high school are still present, as a protagonist who isn’t her school’s Chosen One - she knows that guy, and thinks he’s annoying - tries to navigate a lethal environment where kids frequently murder each other for power, if monsters don’t get them first. Its sheer viciousness, its grim humor, and its complicated interpersonal politics are an immediate draw. But Naomi Novik’s Scholomance series, about kids at a preposterously deadly magical school, stands out in a ridiculously crowded field.
At this point, so many books have been described as “Harry Potter, but for adults” that it’s easy to glaze over when the description comes up again.
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