A review by rumireads
The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani

dark funny
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.75

  • I haven't encountered a book so viciously fatphobic in at least a decade
  • the way it sexualised 12 year olds is absolutely disgusting (I can see why they aged the characters up for the movie)
  • weirdly homophobic as well. kids calling each other gay as an insult might be accurate but it's certainly not something that I'd like to model for them??
  • I think this author has a reeeealy poor opinion of women 

please don't give/recommend this series to the youths, it's genuinely awful towards most kinds of people 
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