This School Makes No Sense (A Deadly Education - Naomi Novik)

In A Deadly Education, Naomi Novik creates a magic school that you would NOT want to go to considering half of the students die before they graduate. That doesn't phase our main character El, who is determined to make it out alive and not compromise her morals to do it. I spend way too long describing the confusing magic system and the school, examine El's character and morals, and rave about her friendship with Orion.