A review by lawbooks600
The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani

3.0

6/10, very chaotic, I did not enjoy this book at all, it is nowhere near the level of the Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling, or the Keeper of the Lost Cities series, by Shannon Messenger, go read those instead for a better story about a fantasy boarding school. It starts with the main characters Sophie and Agatha and Sophie wanted to be put on the Good side whereas Agatha wanted to be on the Evil side but much to their surprise they got the opposite of what they wanted which is a cheap way to pull of a plot twist. This novel ultimately wasn't enjoyable because both sides of the school kept fighting over each other, and even started a war however at least that made the book more action-packed. The apparently "Good" side turned out to be just as bad as the Evil side because they wanted to kill them. The students also experienced harsh abuse in the school as well, such as the burning iron shoes and the failure system which I didn't like. There were flashes of good moments interspersed in this book however that did not do enough for me to put this above 3 stars. The two main characters were just unlikeable, underdeveloped and kept fighting over each other just like the rest of the school however now that I think about it that was the entire point of the story so there's that.