Scholomance Freshman Student Handbook

The Scholomance #0.5

by Naomi Novik

A special limited edition independent bookshop preorder featuring an introduction to the Scholomance with notes from El inside.

Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Dark Academia, Audiobook, Young Adult, Fiction

25 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2022

About the author

An avid reader of fantasy literature since age six, when she first made her way through The Lord of the Rings, Naomi Novik is also a history buff with a particular interest in the Napoleonic era and a fondness for the work of Patrick O’Brian and Jane Austen. She studied English literature at Brown University, and did graduate work in computer science at Columbia University before leaving to participate in the design and development of the computer game Neverwinter Nights: Shadow of Undrentide. Over the course of a brief winter sojourn spent working on the game in Edmonton, Canada (accompanied by a truly alarming coat that now lives brooding in the depths of her closet), she realized she preferred writing to programming, and on returning to New York, decided to try her hand at novels.

Naomi lives in New York City with her husband and six computers. Her website is at naominovik.com

Reviews

[John Horner]

"indipendent"? Seriously?

[curtis :) · Rating 4 out of 5]

could’ve been a bit heavier on the annotation

3.75*

[Taryn Palmisano · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reddit is doing the lords work having the scans of this available for the ones of us that had no clue it even existed.

I like the idea of it and El's little notes she jots. The illustrations are great to see after reading the books because Novik is such a talented writer that it's almost an affirmation when you see an illustrated figure and go, yeah that's exactly how she described it and how I imagined it.

That being said it was a handbook that read like an email/textbook at points which is fine but also a bit meh.

[Kathy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found a digital version of this because another reviewer mentioned that someone had uploaded to Reddit. It was a brief, fairly detail focused read made a little more interesting by El’s notes. I like that I have now read everything in the series. BUT I would have been very upset if I had spent lots of time and/or $ tracking down an actual copy. The illustrations of different mals were great.

[Gabriela's Novel Thoughts · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great addition to the Scholomance world. I loved El's handwritten notes.

[Aleryia Willow · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely little addition to the scholomance book series