Tag: magic school

  • Belladonna U by Tansy Rayner Roberts

    Belladonna U by Tansy Rayner Roberts

    Review of series Belladonna U by Tansy Rayner Roberts including Unreal Alchemy, Holiday Brew and Practical Witching. Belladonna U is a series about a group of university students studying magic at an Australian magical university while living in a shared house and making geeky music and playing role-playing games. It’s wonderfully geeky, whimsical and fun.…

  • Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce

    Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce

    Review of Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce. Tempests and Slaughter is the first book in the The Numair Chronicles duology set in Pierce’s Tortall universe. Numair is a beloved character from the Wild Magic series who has gotten his own prequel series as a spinoff.

  • A Deadly Education & Scholomance by Naomi Novik

    A Deadly Education & Scholomance by Naomi Novik

    Review of A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik and the rest of the Scholomance trilogy, including The Last Graduate and The Golden Enclave. Why would you send your children to a magic school where multiple students die every single year? Where as many as a fourth of the students die? That’s the question that sparked…

  • Uprooted by Naomi Novik

    Uprooted by Naomi Novik

    Review of Uprooted by Naomi Novik. A fantasy inspired by polish fairytales about learning magic, the deep dark forest and political intrigue. If you enjoy fairytale inspired books it is defiantly worth reading.

  • The Circle

    The Circle

    Review of The Circle by Mats Strandberg & Sara Bergmark Elfgren. The Circle is a swedish urban fantasy novel about five young women in a small town learning magic and finding friendship.

  • Circle of Magic & Sandry’s Book

    Circle of Magic & Sandry’s Book

    Review of Sandry’s Book and the Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce. The Circle of Magic is one of my all time favourite magic school series.