But the celebration is short lived - though she, and her friends, saved most of the school’s students during their mad dash to escape the maw-mouths, she must return to save the one who remains locked in. The conclusion to Novik’s Scholomance trilogy takes El out of the deadly magic school’s halls, and into the wider world. The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance #3) by Naomi Novik In Nona the Ninth, Nona just wants to live a normal life - but the last Cohort facility is hemmed in by Blood of Eden forces, and Nona might have to be the weapon that saves them from the Nine Houses. There’s nothing else like it - and nothing quite as acidic and propulsive.

Muir is back with another installment of her sharp-witted, queer, gothic, space-set necromancer series. Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #3) by Tamsyn Muir Soon, Robin will have to decide which side he will take. He is caught between Babel and the Hermes Society, an organization aiming to stop imperial expansion. When Robin Smith, a Chinese orphan raised in Britain, joins Babel as a translator, he wrestles with serving the organization and betraying his motherland. Hosting this center has made the British empire unparalleled in their quest for continued colonization. In the mid-1800s, Babel is the world’s center for translation and magic, including silver working, where lost translations are given meaning via enchanted silver bars.

Image: HarperCollins Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution by R.F.

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