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The School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil, #1)

Soman Chainani,

Iacopo Bruno (Illustrator)

Start date: July 1, 2016

Finish date: July 31, 2016

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Aug 13, 2014 Brigid ✩ rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy, childrens, middle-grade, on-my-kindle

Man, it took me like a whole month to read this book. I don't know why.

Anyway ... I really liked this in the beginning, and I enjoyed the concept. The execution fell a little flat for me, though.

Some general thoughts:

- I felt it went on for way too long, and the plot really wandered all over the place sometimes, to the point where I found it difficult to follow.

- I liked Agatha. Sophie, on the other hand, I just .... could not understand. She was difficult to sympathize with, and I didn't fully ...more

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Aug 10, 2013 Kara rated it it was ok

Shelves: disappointing, fey, amazing-covers, read-in-2013, reviewed, romance, mythology, magic-or-powers, light-and-fluffy, insta-love

Great cover, brilliant concept—what could possible go wrong?

Um. Pretty much everything.

First off, I found this book in the Young Adult section of my library. Upon reading the book, however, I soon realised that this would probably be suited to people much younger than I am. It felt much more like Middle Grade. It was possibly shelved as Young Adult because it is quite long. I don’t mind Middle Grade, but I don’t particularly like it, either—unless it’s up to Harry Potter standards, which this wa ...more

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Jul 20, 2016 Heidi rated it liked it · review of another edition

I really liked the beginning of this one and liked Agatha throughout. My main issue was with Sophie. She was always a shrill and mean girl and I could not understand why Agatha would not see that and let her go. I also thought parts of the book contradicted one another - Sophie's roommates hated her then the worshiped her - then they hated her - then the feared her. Sophie could not do anything without Agatha's help and then the next minute she is more powerful than all the teachers. Things like ...more

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Apr 13, 2014 Stormi (StormReads) rated it liked it

Shelves: middle-grade, print-from-pub, fantasy

I really wish Goodreads did half stars because I gave this book 3.5 stars on my blog.

I started off really excited about reading this book. It was a lot of fun but then towards the middle it started to lag and seem like it was never going to end. I felt like there was a couple of times it could have ended and then I would see I had a lot more to read.

What’s it about?
It’s about two girls from the same town who get chosen to enter The School of Good and Evil. Sophie who has always wanted to be a p ...more

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