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

adventurous lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

This book started so strong and I really loved almost every single part of it. The plot is cute, creative, and unexpected.
One central theme of this book revolves around how your actions are what make you beautiful/ugly, and not vice versa, which I loved, but I felt like there could have been some improvement to how that theme was executed. Specifically once the characters started physically changing appearance in correlation to their actions, it almost had the exact opposite message
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