A Deadly Education
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
"I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my life. Everyone loves Orion Lake. Everyone else, that is. Far as I'm concerned, he can keep his flashy combat magic to himself. I'm not joining his pack of adoring fans. I don't need...
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"I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my life. Everyone loves Orion Lake. Everyone else, that is. Far as I'm concerned, he can keep his flashy combat magic to himself. I'm not joining his pack of adoring fans. I don't need help surviving the Scholomance, even if they do. Forget the hordes of monsters and cursed artifacts, I'm probably the most dangerous thing in the place. Just give me a chance and I'll level mountains and kill untold millions, make myself the dark queen of the world. At least, that's what the world expects. Most of the other students in here would be delighted if Orion killed me like one more evil thing that's crawled out of the drains. Sometimes I think they want me to turn into the evil witch they assume I am. The school certainly does. But the Scholomance isn't getting what it wants from me. And neither is Orion Lake. I may not be anyone's idea of the shining hero, but I'm going to make it out of this place alive, and I'm not going to slaughter thousands to do it, either. Although I'm giving serious consideration to just one."--Provided by publisher.
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Chapter 1Soul-eater
I decided that Orion needed to die after the second time he saved my life. I hadn t really cared much about him before then one way or another, but I had limits. It would ve been all right if he d saved my life some really extraordinary number of times, ten or thirteen or so thirteen is a number with distinction. Orion Lake, my personal bodyguard; I could have lived with that. But we d been in the Scholomance almost three years by then, and he hadn t shown any previous inclination to single me out for special treatment.
Selfish of me, you ll say, to be contemplating with murderous intent the hero responsible for the continued survival of a quarter of our class. Well, too bad for the losers who couldn t stay afloat without his help. We re not meant to all survive, anyway. The school has to be fed somehow.
Ah, but what about me, you ask, since I d needed him to save me? Twice, even? And that s exactly why he had to go. He set off the explosion in the alchemy lab last year, fighting that chimaera. I had to dig myself out of the rubble while he ran around in circles whacking at its fire-breathing tail. And that soul-eater hadn t been in my room for five seconds before he came through the door: he must have been right on its heels, probably chasing it down the hall. The thing had only swerved in here looking to escape.
But who s going to let me explain any of that? The chimaera might not have stuck to me, there were more than thirty kids in the lab that day, but a dramatic rescue in my bedchamber is on another level. As far as the rest of the school is concerned, I ve just fallen into the general mass of hapless warts that Orion Lake has saved in the course of his brilliant progress, and that was intolerable.
Our rooms aren t very big. He was only a few steps from my desk chair, still hunched panting over the bubbling purplish smear of the soul-eater that was now steadily oozing into the narrow cracks between the
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floor tiles, the better to spread all over my room. The fading incandescence on his hands was illuminating his face, not an extraordinary face or anything: he had a big beaky nose that would maybe be dramatic one day when the rest of his face caught up, but for now was just too large, and his forehead was dripping sweat and plastered with his silver-grey hair that he hadn t cut for three weeks too long. He spends most of his time behind an impenetrable shell of devoted admirers, so it was the closest I d ever been to him. He straightened and wiped an arm across the sweat. You okay Gal, right? he said to me, just to put some salt on the wound. We d been in the same lab section for three years.
No thanks to you and your boundless fascination for every dark thing creeping through the place, I said icily. And it is not Gal, it has never been Gal, it s Galadriel the name wasn t my idea, don t look at me and if that s too many syllables for you to manage all in one go, El will do.
His head had jerked up and he was blinking at me in a sort of open-mouthed way. Oh. Uh. I I m sorry? he said, voice rising on the words, as if he didn t understand what was going on.
No, no, I said. I m sorry. Clearly I m not performing my role up to standard. I threw a melodramatic hand up against my forehead. Orion, I was so terrified, I gasped, and flung myself onto him. He tottered a bit: we were the same height. Thank goodness you were here to save me, I could never have managed a soul-eater all on my own, and I hiccuped a pathetically fake sob against his chest.
Would you believe, he
No thanks to you and your boundless fascination for every dark thing creeping through the place, I said icily. And it is not Gal, it has never been Gal, it s Galadriel the name wasn t my idea, don t look at me and if that s too many syllables for you to manage all in one go, El will do.
His head had jerked up and he was blinking at me in a sort of open-mouthed way. Oh. Uh. I I m sorry? he said, voice rising on the words, as if he didn t understand what was going on.
No, no, I said. I m sorry. Clearly I m not performing my role up to standard. I threw a melodramatic hand up against my forehead. Orion, I was so terrified, I gasped, and flung myself onto him. He tottered a bit: we were the same height. Thank goodness you were here to save me, I could never have managed a soul-eater all on my own, and I hiccuped a pathetically fake sob against his chest.
Would you believe, he
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Autoren-Porträt von Naomi Novik
Naomi Novik is the New York Times bestselling author of A Deadly Education, The Last Graduate, and The Golden Enclaves, the award-winning novels Uprooted and Spinning Silver, and the Temeraire series. She is a founder of the Organization for Transformative Works and the Archive of Our Own. She lives in New York City with her family and six computers.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Naomi Novik
- Altersempfehlung: 12 - 16 Jahre
- 2021, 336 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 14,2 x 20,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Del Rey
- ISBN-10: 0593128508
- ISBN-13: 9780593128503
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.07.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
I loved this book. It s such a nail-biter, it s funny, it s thought-provoking, and it s such a good read. BuzzFeedNovik deliciously undoes expectations about magic schools, destined heroes, and family legacies. A gorgeous book about monsters and monstrousness, chockablock with action, cleverness, and wit. Holly Black, #1 New York Times bestselling author
At the Scholomance, monsters are everywhere and the breakfast might kill you, but the wonderful cast of characters will grab ahold of your heart and you ll never want to leave this deadly school. Naomi Novik skillfully combines sharp humor with layers of imagination to build a fantasy that delights on every level. I loved this brilliant book. Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series
Eyeball-meltingly brilliant . . . Novik is, quite simply, a genius. Kiersten White, New York Times bestselling author of And I Darken
Hilarious and wild! Take any fictional magic school, make it as over-the-top dangerous as possible, and populate it with a bunch of snarky teenagers; the result is pure batshit fun. N. K. Jemisin, New York Times bestselling author of The City We Became
A Deadly Education is a nightmare from which I never wished to wake: savage, inventive, and soulful. Novik grasps the totems of childhood that linger in your mind schools of magic, curses, cutthroat classmates, monsters only to twist them into a grand new tale that ll make you believe in magic again. Pierce Brown, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Age
A Deadly Education is a book that lives up to its gobsmacker of an opening sentence and follows right through to its shocker of an ending that promises more to come. Naomi Novik is relentlessly innovative and entertaining. Terry Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Druid
Friendship in spite of itself; danger that doesn t quit what a wildly magical ride!
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Tamora Pierce, New York Times bestselling author of Tempests and Slaughter
The magic and mystery of this chillingly lovely novel will appeal to both YA and adult fans of J. K. Rowling s Harry Potter books. . . . An unresolved ending leaves readers eager for the next installment. Library Journal (starred review)
The magic and mystery of this chillingly lovely novel will appeal to both YA and adult fans of J. K. Rowling s Harry Potter books. . . . An unresolved ending leaves readers eager for the next installment. Library Journal (starred review)
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