A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

A Deadly Education is a dark school-of-magic book, where magic users are targeted by all the darker creatures of the world during their pubescent years. Their safest option is… not that safe: a boarding school literally set apart from the world, with no oversight and only slightly fewer things that want to eat the students.

The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells

I just finished the fifth in the Murderbot Diaries, a fast-paced science-fiction series by Martha Wells about a rogue construct (like a cyborg, but 'born' that way) who just wants to watch its shows and not talk to humans about its feelings, but who keeps ending up in situations where everything seems to want to kill its humans.