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The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik follows on from The Deadly Education, and so El and the others helped to clear the graduating hall for the year above them, and now it’s their turn to plan their graduation!

I really enjoyed this book, just as I loved the first one, and have been telling anyone who will listen that this series is really good!  It’s a fantasy, set in a school for magic, where there are things trying to kill the students, no teachers, but the school is alive with magic.  

The Last Graduate was published on 28th September 2021, and is available from Amazon, Waterstones (they have a special edition, if you move fast!) and Bookshop.org.

I bought myself the special edition of this book, and will be on the lookout for the third book, and hoping for a special edition again!

You can follow Naomi Novik on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and her website.

I’ve read the first book in this series, A Deadly Education, and you can read my review here.

I was given this book in exchange for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Random House.

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The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling is the tale of how magic, vodka and a broken heart do not mix!  Nine years ago, Vivienne cursed her ex-boyfriend, and now he’s back again.  And it looks like the curse actually has an effect when he returns!  Vivienne is going to have to work out how she can fix it!

This is a fantasy mystery romance, which I enjoyed going along with. It’s a good book as an autumn read!

The Ex Hex was published on 28th September 2021, and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

You can follow Erin Sterling on Twitter.

I was given this book in exchange for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Headline.

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The Lost Plot by Genevieve Cogman (The Invisible Library 4) has Irene and Kai involved with in dragon politics, in a world that is in Prohibition era, and they are in New York!  There are 2 dragons vying for a role in the Queen of the South’s court, and Irene is approached by one of them, saying that a librarian is helping the other, and so it’s only fair if Irene help them!

Irene has to investigate, along with Kai, in a world where mob bosses abound! 

This is another great book in this series, and one where you learn more about the dragons.  I found the book to be fast paced, engaging and entertaining!  The characters are great, and I enjoy spending time with them!

The Lost Plot was published on 14th December 2017 and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

You can follow Genevieve Cogman on Twitter, Facebook and her website.

My reviews for the other books in the series are below:

The Invisible Library (book 1)

The Masked City (book 2)

The Burning Page (book 3)

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Children of Virtue and Vengeance carries on where Children of Blood and Bone stopped.  Magic has been brought back for everyone, and now Zélie is trying to get the maji to work together.  She wants to put Amari on the throne, as she will be more welcoming to the maji than her father was.

This is a book of huge change, with magic coming back, and people trying to work together, so there is inevitably, distrust between characters.

I didn’t find this as amazing as the first book in the series, but you often have that happen in a series.  The story was ok, but it didn’t hold on to me enough for me to want to read more in this series.  It’s a fantasy novel, as you can tell from the magic, and I enjoyed the setting and the background, just wasn’t grabbed by the plot!

Children of Virtue and Vengeance was published on 3rd December 2019 and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

You can follow Tomi Adeyemi on her website, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

You can read my review of Children of Blood and Bone, book 1 in this series here.

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The Fantastic Phantasmic Detective Agency by D.L. Dugger is the third in a series of YA fantasy stories where three children have the Phantasmic Detective Agency, which is there to help ghosts.  They have a medium, Arthur, who can speak to the dead.

This story jumps between 2 different points of view – one of whom is Arthur, and the other is Abby, one of the children.

I found this story to be confusing as it jumped around, but that could be due to the format of the book.  The story is quite basic, so it’s aimed at a young YA audience.

The Fantastic Phantasmic Detective Agency was published on 11th November 2019 and is available from Amazon.

You can follow D.L. Dugger on their website.

I was given this book in exchange for an unbiased review, and so my thanks to NetGalley and to BooksGoSocial.