2022 Reading Challenge: a book becoming a tv series or movie in 2022

The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Every four years the School Master comes and kidnaps 2 children for The School for Good and Evil. One goes to the Good side and one for Evil. There students learn how to be characters in the fairy tales. In the School of Good students learn to be Prince and Princesses, side-kicks and helpmates. in Evil it's to become villains, witches and henchmen.

Sophie has dreamed of being kidnapped and taken to the School of Good. she does everything the Princesses in the Fairy Tales do - dresses in pink, wear glass slippers, does good deeds... because she wants out of the small village and become a real fairy tale princess. She even befriends the village outcast Agatha, the creepy and unattractive girl who lives in the graveyard.

On the night that the School Master is supposed to come, Agatha camps out to keep her only friend from leaving. When she sees Sophie being carried away she fights to stop the kidnapping - only to be kidnapped herself and whisked away to The School of Good and Evil.

Sophie is ecstatic until she is delivered to the School of Evil and creepy Agatha is sent to the School of Good. Convinced there has been some mistake, Sophie does everything possible to right the wrong and get into the School of Good. While Agatha just wants to get her only friend and go home.

But the fairy tale story has already been started to be written and the girls may have less freedom than they thought.

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This is a middle grade book and I am NOT the intended audience. That being said, I picked up the audiobook for a reading challenge prompt (2022 PopSugar - A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2022). I found the book OK. I fully believe that if I was a 12-14 year old girl I would have adored this book.

But I will admit after having seen the casting line up for this movie (will be on Netflix), I am intrigued to see it, though I am ambivalent over whether or not I progress in the series.



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