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A review by ladyazulina
The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Don't take it too seriously and you will not suffer much. Before I started reading, I did something I don't do often: I read other reviews, and thought they were kind of contradictory with people loving it and a lot of people that didn't, but it also helped me to do exactly that: not take this story too close to heart.
It helped me to just read something without any other purpose than to read. It's awful and ridiculous and incredibly weird in a lot of parts, but I let the weirdness be and just read.
This was a journey I made with my best friend, and to me, it was easy to connect with Agatha, we were... similar in some kind of ways. My best friend was Sophie, so we crashed into a lot of arguments about what this is fair, what this is unfair, what this shouldn't be that way, before I reached the enlightenment view of just don't do it. We weren't Sophie and Agatha, though being on opposite sides was sort of fun. I don't see myself as Good, but I will not survive in the School of Evil. She's not pure Evil, but she will love to attend the School of Good.
Well, it can be annoying, and have no sense, and have sense, and follow no kind of physics law, and grow overly depicting in the wrong things and bizarre for a lot of parts, but I suppose that its charm. It's outside of the usual kind of fairy tales, so if you don't want anything going weird, then save it and read something else. But I believe you should be the one doing your call, try it yourself. You can leave the journey at any point anyway.
It helped me to just read something without any other purpose than to read. It's awful and ridiculous and incredibly weird in a lot of parts, but I let the weirdness be and just read.
This was a journey I made with my best friend, and to me, it was easy to connect with Agatha, we were... similar in some kind of ways. My best friend was Sophie, so we crashed into a lot of arguments about what this is fair, what this is unfair, what this shouldn't be that way, before I reached the enlightenment view of just don't do it. We weren't Sophie and Agatha, though being on opposite sides was sort of fun. I don't see myself as Good, but I will not survive in the School of Evil. She's not pure Evil, but she will love to attend the School of Good.
Well, it can be annoying, and have no sense, and have sense, and follow no kind of physics law, and grow overly depicting in the wrong things and bizarre for a lot of parts, but I suppose that its charm. It's outside of the usual kind of fairy tales, so if you don't want anything going weird, then save it and read something else. But I believe you should be the one doing your call, try it yourself. You can leave the journey at any point anyway.