My Scholomance series soundtrack

Songs stuck in my head while reading Naomi Novik's "murder Hogwarts" books

Spoilers for A Deadly Education, The Last Graduate, and The Golden Enclaves below.

A Deadly Education

It’s Nice to Have a Friend by Taylor Swift when El and Orion first start hanging out

• Something gave you the nerve to touch my hand, it’s nice to have a friend

Glory and Gore by Lorde as I immerse myself in the Scholomance setting

• No-one 'round here's good at keeping their eyes closed

• We gladiate, but I guess we're really fighting ourselves / Roughing up our minds, so we're ready when the kill time comes / Wide awake in bed, words in my brain / “Secretly you love this, do you even wanna go free?”

Creature Fear by Bon Iver as we understand more of the book’s world

• So many foreign worlds, so relatively fucked / So ready for us, so ready for us / The creature fear

The Last Graduate

Glory and Gore by Lorde again, especially these lyrics when El realizes she should get everyone in the entire school out safely

• There's a humming in the restless summer air / And we're slipping off the course that we prepared / But in all chaos, there is calculation

• You could try and take us but we're the gladiators / Everyone a rager, but secretly they're saviors / Glory and gore go hand in hand

Everywhere, Everything by Noah Kahan as El and Orion’s romance progresses

• Everywhere, everything / I wanna love you 'til we're food for the worms to eat / 'Til our fingers decompose, keep my hand in yours

Born to Die by Lana Del Rey as the seniors’ final graduation plan approaches

• You like your girls insane, so / Choose your last words, this is the last time / 'Cause you and I, we were born to die

The Golden Enclaves

Cringe by Matt Maeson when El finds Orion in the Scholomance

and he has literally eaten a maw-mouth and is all messed up

• Lover come over / Look what I've done / I've been alone so long, I feel like I'm on the run

• She said I'm looking like a bad man, smooth criminal / She said my spirit doesn't move like it did before / She said that I don't look like me no more, no more

• Lover come hold me, could you forget / I've got a secret, digging a dent