#44 The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

 The second book in the series starts right as the last book ends with El trying to figure out the message her mother was able to send to her with the incoming freshmen. Now a senior and most of the time is trying to stay alive and figure out a way to get everyone out of the school at graduation in one piece.  There is lots of planning and practice and in bits and pieces you find out more on how the school was built.  The book does end on a real cliffhanger so we will have to wait to see book 3. I enjoyed this one a bit more than the previous one since El is now dealing with more students and isn’t being treated like a social pariah for the book.

 

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss