“‘Sophie had waited all her life
to be kidnapped.’ Every four years two children are stolen away from Gavaldon,
never to return. Most children fear being taken to the School for Good and
Evil. But not Sophie… She has dreamt all her life of being a princess and
believes the school could be her chance. Her best friend Agatha has other
ideas. When the two girls are taken, things don’t quite go to Sophie’s plan.
Because sometimes, the princess and the witch don’t look like they do in
fairy tales.”
What is the book about?
Two girls, Sophie and
Agatha, live in a small village surrounded by nothing but a never-ending dark
forest. Every four years two children are taken into the dark woods by the
mysterious School Master to the School for Good and Evil. Sophie has been
waiting all her life to be taken to become a princess but Agatha just wishes
that Sophie would be happy in Gavaldon, with her. One night the two girls are
taken and things don’t quite go the way Sophie had expected. The girls try and
try to find a way back home but they find themselves trapped in the School for
Good and Evil. When they realise that they have been in the right schools all
along, they finally begin to understand just how difficult getting back home
really is and that their friendship will never be the same again.
What were your initial thoughts on the book?
As one of my friends
absolutely loved the books, she kept going on and on about them telling me I
should read them. After a while the books started to look interesting and exciting,
so as we both like similar books I thought that I would give the first book
try. Now this happened a few years ago and I found them a bit confusing but, a
few weeks ago, the books started to sound amazing again when my friend
constantly spoke about the new book and how excited she was, so I decided to
purchase the books so that I would have something new to read. When I first
started reading it, again, I found it very surprising because it got into
interesting right away unlike quite a lot of the books I have read. I began to
really enjoy the book and now I realise that I only found it confusing because
I had wanted to know what came next so badly that I skimmed over a lot of
important parts.
Who was your favourite character and why?
My favourite character
was Agatha because of how kind she was and how much she cared about Sophie. I
saw kindness in her because whenever she spoke about getting back home to
Gavaldon she always said “we” and never forgot about Sophie, the first person
to ever show her any kindness. I really liked Agatha because even though Sophie
was the one to start their friendship she was the one who cared about it the
most and she was a great example that it is what is inside of you that matters
not what you look like. I also, at some parts of the book, really liked Sophie,
for example, when she was taken to the Doom Room she finally thought about
someone other than herself and willed herself to “Stay alive for Agatha”, but
at some parts Sophie seemed to have no kindness inside her and if she could
have gone into the School for Good she would have given up Agatha at the drop
of a hat, and that is why I didn’t always like Sophie.
What was your favourite part of the book and
why?
My favourite part in
the book was when Agatha and Sophie finally realised that they had been in the
correct schools the whole time and they decided to embrace the true person that
they are inside. I really liked this part because the book was getting
extremely interesting and most of my questions started to get answers. I also
have another favourite part which is the ending as it tells everyone that the
love of friendship is just as strong as the love between a prince and his
princess. I also liked it because it shows that although everyone thought that
it wasn’t true a princess and a witch can certainly be friends, this ending
told me that Agatha and Sophie’s friendship was stronger that the urge Sophie
had to kill her and that there Happily Never After was with each other.
What was your overall impression of the book?
Overall I think that
the book was perfect and that there is nothing in the School for Good and Evil
that I would change. I found that this book had a bit of everything and that
every chapter was filled with mystery and that, unlike some books, every chapter
was important. I loved that everything that happened had some kind of meaning
and that the mystery and adventure started from the very beginning when Sophie
dreamt of her prince. I also think that the ending was perfect too, it had just
enough suspense to keep me wanting more but it didn’t have too much keeping me
from being frustrated and with questions to answer, I think that this is now my
new favourite book.
Would you recommend this book?
I would 100% recommend
this book for absolutely anyone, but specifically for children from 12-15 and
if you like fantasy then this is definitely the next book you should read.
Summarise the book in one sentence. (Verdict)
An amazing, fantasy
adventure into the most magical school in the world.
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