/lit/ - Literature

I picked up A Deadly Education because I heard it was a more interesting take on a magic school

and maybe it is, but my god, YA novels are pure aids. Yet another first person account of a snarky teenager with frequent internal monologues and supposedly quirky non-sequiturs as a form of worldbuilding. she introduces her love interest / rival in the literal first sentence. and despite being a wizard with no friends and no family in a school with a >50% fatality rate, she thinks about and reacts to everything as if she's just another teen

frustrating start!