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squirrelsohno 's review for:
The School for Good and Evil
by Soman Chainani
other than the sexism and apparent belief that good looks means you're good, I really liked this, but trust me, it is better to pretend the characters are all 18.
ETA Second Read:
This book was still cute and adorable, but really, the narrative that love conquers all at age 13 is ridiculous. Half of the book is about trying to coerce a boy into kissing a girl against his will... The romance angle is not great. Nor is the forced tropes about gender roles, beauty as a sign of good, etc etc. Even if the book tries to turn the tropes on their heads, it still doesn't get past forcing girls to be beautiful to be seen as good, and for a girl who is determined to be evil because she is selfish (LBR, I'd be in the School for Evil) to be forced to lose her femininity because power comes from being ugly.
Yeah, I could write a dissertation about tropes in this... But I still enjoyed it, even though there is no representation other than straight teenagers obsessed with kissing pretty boys and asking out girls to the dance.
ETA Second Read:
This book was still cute and adorable, but really, the narrative that love conquers all at age 13 is ridiculous. Half of the book is about trying to coerce a boy into kissing a girl against his will... The romance angle is not great. Nor is the forced tropes about gender roles, beauty as a sign of good, etc etc. Even if the book tries to turn the tropes on their heads, it still doesn't get past forcing girls to be beautiful to be seen as good, and for a girl who is determined to be evil because she is selfish (LBR, I'd be in the School for Evil) to be forced to lose her femininity because power comes from being ugly.
Yeah, I could write a dissertation about tropes in this... But I still enjoyed it, even though there is no representation other than straight teenagers obsessed with kissing pretty boys and asking out girls to the dance.