It's E'ls graduating year, and things aren't off to a good start. She shares homeroom with a group of freshman. Worse yet, as the school year unwinds, she begins to feel protective of them. Nobody needs that.
The deadly school kills hundreds of kids a year. Helping someone else could mean you die.
El has an alliance with several people she is astonished to call friends. There's no room for anyone else in the mad, desperate dash towards graduating and making it out of the school alive.
Somehow, once these kids have gotten in under her careful guard, El begins to ponder if she can save everyone. All of the graduating class. All of the kids in the school.
Once the idea takes hold of her, she balances survival, schoolwork and a master plan that will require every student to help get themselves, their allies, their rivals and their enemies out the front door.
This second novel of the Scholomance trilogy manages to be as terrifying as ever, but it's also emotional. The kids all have a desperate and foolish task ahead.
If they do make it out, how will they be received in their homes and communities? What effect on their whole world if this essential part of society does not function to save their children from certain death on the outside?
For once, the Scholomance itself has a say in things.
I can't wait for book three.
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