![]() ![]() Far and away the top of her class, her contrary desires both to excel and to bend the rules lead her down a strange and dangerous path toward the mysterious exam she must take in year three. ![]() Hardworking Sasha learns to perform a series of brain-bending exercises that change the way she perceives the world and that transform her physically. Although the question as to what “special technologies” actually are is raised multiple times, no one ever answers it certainly, the book never approaches the word “magic,” but the students are clearly learning something outside the ordinary. ![]() The gold coins Sasha vomits upon completing these acts prove to be her tuition to the School of Special Technologies in Tulpa. ![]() High-school student Sasha is enjoying a beach vacation with her mother when a sinister-seeming man convinces her that if she doesn’t perform a series of strange tasks, her mother’s life will be in danger. Lev Grossman’s The Magicians meets Max Barry’s Lexicon in this spooky Russian contemporary fantasy about a mysterious university in a remote town. Vita Nostra, Marina & Sergey Dyachenko Jessica Ball, narrator ( HarperAudio/Blackstone Audio 978-1-98255504-7, $39.99, MP3 CD, 18.25 hr., unabridged ). ![]()
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