Count me in as a third person who's read and enjoyed the Scholomance books, though the 3rd one left me feeling slightly unsatisfied somehow.

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I was expecting there to be some sort of consequence to essentially killing+resurrecting Orion in tandem with the shelter spells, like him being bound to the school in some fashion. But unless I missed a subtlety, he's just alive and happily purified, which rang odd with how Novak otherwise really liked to lean into the "magic has a nasty price" theme.