She has a Plan: keep her head down to stay alive, store up enough mana to show her classmates how powerful she really is (but not too soon or else she might be killed by said classmates), and getting a bid in an enclave so that she and her mother can be protected from the constant threat of sorcerer-consuming monsters.Įl’s Plan is solid–until Orion Lake starts to save El’s life. So, El works hard to build mana–an energy source for performing spells–the noble way (pushups, situps, performing physical torture like needlework) instead of pulling it out of some unwitting freshman. El is unparalleled in her affinity to wield spells of death and cosmic destruction, but she doesn’t actually want to turn to the dark side. But that is what the Scholomance does–a teacher-less interdimensional academy into which young magic-workers are whisked away to learn first-hand that magic is a void of eternal darkness filled with monsters that want to eat you alive.Įl’s specific problem is that she’s a dark sorceress– the dark sorceress, in fact, as a pretty damning prophecy says she’s basically going to destroy the world. It’s not easy being enrolled in a magical school that is actively trying to kill you every second of every day for four years. To be fair, she and the other high schoolers within the Scholomance are all having a hard time. Galadriel–El to her friends (not that she has many of those)–is having a real bitch of a junior year. Stand alone or series: Book 1 of the Scholomance Series

The problem? Her powerful dark magic might also kill all the other students. It would be easy enough for El to defeat the monsters that prowl the school. She may be without allies, but she possesses a dark power strong enough to level mountains and wipe out millions. And beware of the monsters who lurk everywhere.Įl is uniquely prepared for the school’s dangers. Survival is more important than any letter grade, for the school won’t allow its students to leave until they graduate… or die! The rules are deceptively simple: Don’t walk the halls alone. There are no teachers, no holidays, and no friendships, save strategic ones. Lesson One of the Scholomance: Learning has never been this deadly.Ī Deadly Education is set at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death (for real) - until one girl, El, begins to unlock its many secrets.

Scholomance a deadly education