Naomi Novik is set to kick off a new fantasy trilogy later this year, according to Entertainment Weekly. The first installment, A Deadly Education, will hit bookstores on October 6th.
Del Rey tells EW that the novel is a “twisted, super dark, super modern, female-led Harry Potter,” and is set in a brutal magical school where survival trumps all. One student, El, works to uncover the school’s secrets, which has no teachers, competitive students, is full of monsters and which won’t let students leave until they graduate. She has one particular advantage that other students don’t have: a powerful form of dark magic that could help her survive her time at the school, but which could also kill all of her classmates.
Novik is best-known for her Temeraire fantasy series, as well as her latest two standalone fantasy novels, Uprooted and Spinning Silver, which was nominated for the 2019 Hugo Award.
EW has the cover of the novel, as well as the book’s first chapter.
I’M SO EXCITED!!!
This and the new Elizabeth Bear both released on my birthday in October? Best birthday ever!
The cover is boring, but the summary sounds great. It’s also Naomi Novik. Enough said.
Ok . This book sounds interesting. To quote Wash, ” Oh God, Oh God we’re all going to die!’ kind of interesting but the perfect kind of read for October.
The summary doesn’t sound super-interesting to me, but Novik is on my “Buy” list so it’ll get a shot. We’ll see what she does with it.
Interesting, dark fantasy is not really what I’d expect from her, given the relentless optimism of her other books, but I’m excited nevertheless.