LikedAnd Bodies of Magic was also really good. Took me by surprise.
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Bodies of magic (2026)
Creators: Mixed An instant USA Today bestseller! Grey’s Anatomy meets A Deadly Education in this dark academia fantasy from USA Today bestselling author Freya Marske. At the Academie of the Grand Duchy of Sieuxerr, every mage with the healer’s gift has five years to master their power and to prepare for the infamous Grand Exam—a five-day trial whose results will determine their entire future. The list of exam rules includes: • You will perform five practical cases. • Your exam group is chosen at random. • You pass together, or fail together. It does not include: • On the first day, your exam group will find a classmate's dead body in the exam hall. And as they will soon discover, this particular group all have something to hide... and all have a connection with the dead girl, a brilliant scholar who would have been first in their class. Five scholars. Five secrets. Five days in which to solve a murder, pass the most important exam of their lives, and uncover a secret larger than all of their own combined. One with the potential to change the world. Are you ready? Let’s begin. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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MixedI feel like the strength in this book lied in the characters, in their dynamics, in the messiness that was the dynamics between these characters , and in the representation. We did have a lot of queer representation in this and I thought that was done so well and I really appreciated it but I think the plot lacked because of that.
DislikedSo, yeah, I don't know. I think this one just fell short. I think maybe I expected something different from this book.
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