

Without alliances (both inside the school and back at home), you are likely to die before the end of senior year. If you get from one end of the graduation hall to the other, and can get through the portal door without being eaten, you graduate. You simply fight for your life against the monsters and creatures that have been waiting all year long to eat you. Oh, and graduation? No speeches and diplomas. The odds are against her – by her junior year, El hasn’t formed any alliances, and doesn’t have anyone to watch her back during “graduation.” She goes to the Scholomance*, a school of magic on another plane of existence entirely, and all she wants is to survive, and get back to her mother in rural Wales.
This is the world that our “heroine,” El (that’s short for Galadriel, naturally) live in. It’s a school of magic, but not like Hogwarts or Watford.Īnd that school is actively trying to kill you.

All you have with you is what you had in your pockets or even in your mouth - No suitcases or trunks. When you show up the first day of freshman year you don’t leave until graduation day senior year. Imagine a high school that has zero teachers or staff, just students trying to learn and advance.
