Deadly Class 🔖 🔖

Without spoiling too much: The book makes a promise early on that no one is safe . When a major character dies (brutally, unfairly), the second half of the series becomes a suicide mission. The students decide to burn the whole system down. It leads to the — a sequence where teenagers in formal wear commit wholesale slaughter to the soundtrack of your favorite 80s goth rock.

Welcome to . Welcome to Deadly Class .

Remender isn't interested in cool assassins. He’s interested in broken children. Marcus isn’t a hero; he’s a hypocrite, a liar, and a deeply traumatized kid who mistakes cynicism for strength. The series charts his toxic friendships with (a powerful, angry Black Panther type), Maria (a volatile, tragic Latina heiress to a cartel), and Saya (the stoic, deadly Japanese heir to a ninja clan).

If you think high school is a battlefield, try attending a school where the homework involves assassination, the prom is a bloodbath, and failing a test means failing to breathe.