A review by psychology4introverts
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

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

5.0

At first I thought it would just be another YA entertaining read, but there is actually more depth to the characters and the story is rather dark, yes, but that‘s just the setting, the characters and the story are wonderful, delightfully complex and there‘s a lot of character development. They seem very realistic in their development under the circumstance that they have to fight for survival every day, which becomes kind of normal in the book, but not in an unrealistic way, which gives it additional depth. The character development is great and it is very well written, there are no lengths at all, hard to put down and therefore 5 stars, which I did not expect but happy to have given it a try! The magic is connected with languages, which reminded me a lot of Babel, but it‘s definitely not as tragic as Babel.