Michael BuschThis is an occasional reminder that there is most of a century of wizard-school stories written by authors who are not horrible people.
From Le Guin's "Earthsea" through to Novik's "Scholomance Trilogy".
Robin Adams@michael_w_busch Great thread of reading recommendations so far.
Like to add Diana Wynne Jones' Chrestomanci series.
And of course Jill Murphy's The Worst Witch series. When you read them you see how JKR might have taken some, um, inspiration from them.
Zeborah@robinadams Vita Nostra (this is the English title, for clarity) by Sergey and Marina Dyachenko is... definitely a magic boarding school and is definitely different. It's even a good order of magnitude or two darker than the Scholomance.
That one was not to my taste.
@michael_w_busch I found it quite painful to read. I never quite decided if it was good-painful or bad-painful, and then the end hit with a "wait you what now?"
But it definitely was different....