Sweetling#468 reviewed A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik (The Scholomance, #1)
A Deadly Education is set at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure …
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1 star
Dead by Boredom
In short: tl;dr
Approximately at 80-ish "kindle"-page on 6.3-inch smartphone the book appears:
a) totally not about not-ravenclaw-ripoff sideline character uprising against not-harry-potter-ripoff "main" character
b) living in totally not random "cool name let's dust it off" magic school (so sorry, Scholomance, you deserve better coverage)
c) with magic system's explanation designed to be as befuddling as possible
d) and with streams of consciousness infodumping which sometimes top Naruto's prolonged fights taking 5-10 20-min episodes to complete.
Bleh.