Language: G (6 swears, 0 ‘f'); Mature Content: PG (mass death because of the plagues and one of the characters being a taster and in her classes would try small amounts of poisons); Violence: PG-13 (lots of on page blood. Characters coughing up blood because of plague. Fight scenes where characters get cut, restrained or knocked out)
BUYING ADVISORY: MS, HS - ADVISABLE
APPEALS TO: SEVERAL
12yo Nia just wants to live a normal life in the seaside desert city of Yerat, but she is known as a Sinsory, someone who has extraordinarily heightened senses. Because of her unique ability to smell, she is “tapped” to join the Cloister, a special school for children with talents like Nia's, in the hope that they can use their abilities to find cures for different plagues that have ravaged the population. In The Cloister, Nia learns more about her ability to smell and perhaps sniffs out a sinister mystery within the walls of the school.
I was drawn in by the dark academia premise 2) I liked the author's description of the world's magic system and I thought the writing was well done 3) I enjoyed the main characters' perspective and snarkier asides.
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