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The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

42 reviews

ashley_reya's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I took some time after finishing the first book in this series for book club to come back and read the next in the series. Which was exactly what I needed, because this time I picked up the story b/c I missed the characters/world. I missed Aadhya, Liu, Orion, The Scholomance, and most of all I missed El.

Novik did it again! Another beautiful story, a plot twist I didn’t see coming, and a cliffhanger that had me running to the library to pick up the next installment. Delightful dark academia…can’t wait to see what happens next!

(now that they made it out..for the most part 🤞)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Murder

evbyrd's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, and Vomit

scurvotron's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Violence

Minor: Bullying, Gore, Suicide, and Vomit

bunnybird22's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

littlestdread's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Confinement, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, and Abandonment

scarlett_f's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

A recipe of Hunger Games and Harry Potter, but with a pinch of sinister steampunk and dystopian stirred in. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content and Death of parent

A recipe of Hunger Games and Harry Potter, but with a pinch of sinister steampunk and dystopian stirred in.

micallab's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content

beccaand's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Sexual content and Vomit

evarinya's review against another edition

adventurous tense

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.75

This book was... such a disappointment. I absolutely loved the first book, an easy five-star read, and I was so hopeful when I started this one.
But somehow, something changed between the books. Suddenly, both main characters turned into what felt like the worst versions of themselves.
While I had liked El's snarky comments in the first book, this time, many of them seemed mean-spirited, sometimes borderline abusive to Orion.
Orion too. He was a great character in the first book, and I liked the 'naively heroic' act he put out, including his flaws. But this time around, he barely even appeared, and when he did, he was mostly whining or being saved by El. Like... what?

In general, I hated the way El's power was developed because... honestly,

the moment she got the power sharer, she was literally OP.
And all that talk about 'because ONLY I can save them,' 'I am the only one who can do this', and her general skill to simply kill anything with any spell.
Until it mattered, at which point she started to be kind of... useless? I don't know. How her power or anyone's skills worked against that many mals really didn't seem to have been explained well enough for me to understand why she suddenly had issues. And why couldn't they have just run around that mawmouth? Huh?

And I don't even want to look at that ending. I had to read the last pages twice because I couldn't believe just how stupid the characters were acting. Or maybe I still missed something, but...

why the hell didn't they both leave?! Why did Orion decide to stay?

This was so stupid...

Added to this that I had to start and skim most pages in the middle of the book as basically nothing happened (besides endless worldbuilding and El going off of five mental tangents in the middle of action scenes, somehow?), and... yeah. I wanted to give two stars after that endless middle part but went down 0.25 stars for that ending.
As a comparison: I needed less than two days to finish the first book, with me being endlessly amused by all kinds of little things and situations. It took two weeks for me to slog through the second. I don't even know if I laughed once. It mainly was eye-rolling and groaning instead.

It really is frustrating because I loved the idea of the setting and where it could have gone with it... but after checking out what's going to happen in the next book, I certainly will not continue to read this series.
What a frustrating experience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual content

Minor: Vomit

blacksphinx's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Just when I was complaining that a certain main character hadn't done anything all book or exhibited any sort of personality, we got some nice time for them to open up and bloom a bit before the brutal cliffhanger of an ending. 

It's lovely watching our protagonist grow as a person, opening up, learning to ask for help, and forming close friendships with other girls. (The unexpected LGBT+ representation was a nice bonus!) There was at least one plot point in here that didn't really make any sense to me, but the emotional through line and building themes stop me from giving it less than five stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Pregnancy, and War