The Raven Scholar by Antonia HodgsonMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
As the beginning of a new epic fantasy trilogy, this book couldn’t decide if it wanted to be dark academia or magical competition, so why not both? Well, more accurately, it’s a magical competition mystery with a touch of dark academia at the core, helped by the word “scholar” in the title. After all, it requires reading a lot of in universe legends in order to understand what is happening as the gods’ chosen champions compete to see who will be the next emperor. In that sense, it’s got a bit of Gideon the Ninth in its DNA too - and funny how I’m seeing more of that lately while we wait endlessly for Tamsyn Muir to finally publish the fourth and final novel in that series, with a sequel gap of three years and counting…but I digress.
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