The Last Graduate

The Last Graduate
Naomi Novik

CAWPILE SCORE
C-8
A-9
W-8
P-8
I-8
L-8
E-9
TOTAL-8.29/10

CAWPILECharactersEl- wants to be wanted for herself and not for her death abilities. Orion-been conditioned to want to kill mals. Its his affinity super reinforcedThe School—just wants to protect the students Chinese Enclave kids—don't trust her, don't do their combat runs. othersside characters also felt pretty invested.AtmosphereEmotion of the school and the kids. The feelings the gym creates after its “fixed”WritingGood writing. Very well done being in El's head. Descriptive enough to get a feel with being over the top.PlotEl's class is next up to graduation and the school is off. Mals only seem to be coming for El and her schedule is crazy. The Graduation Obstacle course runs are insane and only get worse. Only with El can you make it through. The School is tired of failing and wants all its students to be protected. The school isn't evil. They come up with a plan to draw all the mals in and kick the school into the void. They do. Patience and Fortitude come back but its just one. Orion pushes El out of the gate.InvestmentVery invested 1st in thinking that the school is trying to kill El. Then that something is going wrong because not enough mana is being released from deaths. Then can they pull it off what will go wrong when they attempt it.LogicThe way that El was thinking things were going to happen and they did or didn't was logical and the plans that everybody made to “fix” the school. Literally everyone comes up with the same idea is so trueEnjoymentLoved this book, missed a little of the romance until 60% throughMiscFixing the gym with the attack against her. Finally able to use those spells of destruction for a good purposeOrion's idea of a date. Getting the familiars Seeing the graduation hall empty. Patience and Temperance Ate everything else then each otherORION pushes her through the Gate and stays behindThe Maleficer getting his spelled turned back on him. Mal's want to obey her? Control over them. Lots didn't attack until she was there. Bean bag at ChloesEverybody thinks it's a trick that she hid until now.Powersharers—Orion can't stop pulling almost literallyA good use of a Honeypot
I will be talking about it on Libromancy https://libromancy.podbean.com/ on 09/25/22