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Finished off this book while waiting for my library holds to come in. Chainani continues the dissection of fairy tales in this series: good and evil in the first book, and now the gender expectations for boy and girl. Tensions between friendships and burgeoning romantic interests are also explored.

#SummerEndReadathon
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While I enjoyed book 1, I really enjoyed book 2. The ending is still predictable for me, but it didn't make the story less enjoyable. Now I need to get my hands on book #3.

Onto book 2 of the School for Good and Evil🏰

“It‘s the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they‘re just as complicated as real life.”
#October2022

Did I enjoy my reread of the first book enough that I decided to continue with the series? Yep, I did. It‘s a fun read & it‘s easy to see why it is so popular with middle grade readers (and likely others as well). It‘s also a really entertaining examination of good vs evil (and what is good and/or evil), fairy tales, and friendship. The books may run long but the story never lags and I‘m ready to dive into the second book in the series!

Went to dinner with friends, came home to a box of books. Love Saturday book mail!

This was a good choice for me to be reading in the wee hours of the #readathon, as the last 100 or so pages are almost totally action. The second in this middle grade/YA cusp series, Sophie and Agatha find themselves back at School, only with boys on one side and girls the other. Whose Ever After will win out? Why is the new headmistress so controlling? Which girl does Tedros love? Lots of drama and angst but still fun, even if I‘m not the …

A few more books from #JumpStart2020 so far

-Fireborne ⭐️⭐️⭐️
-One Christmas Eve ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
-The A.I. Who Loved Me ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
-A World Without Princes ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Got in a 4.55-mile audio-walk this morning while finishing this book. The weather is perfect for a long walk. 😍 #boutofbooks #jumpstart2020

I think I would have enjoyed this more as a book rather than an #audiobook. The voiceacting was fine, but the plot got a little jumbled in this format. This series kind of bothers me: I know that it's middle grade, but it sometimes doesn't feel nuanced enough when dealing with genders, good vs evil, romance, or beauty. Other times it feels like the subtext is very complicated surrounding these issues but not brought to the forefront enough. ⬇️

My reading habits have changed a lot since joining Litsy! I listen to #audiobooks a LOT more. (I always listen to them while I drive.) - The tagged book is my current audio.
Also, I read a lot more different genres, especially more nonfiction!
Also, I read a lot more with other people!
#changes
@Megabooks

Well with people making noise in our house at 4am, I decided since I couldn‘t sleep I might as well make the best of it: morning coffee and some reading time! #currentread #mounttbr #19of2019

Well ironically I was going to do my own readathon today into tomorrow (since tomorrow is my birthday) and I‘d like to finish two more books before the end of April📖 but I am glad there is a readathon going on rn, it means I won‘t be alone and I can also partake in it! Here‘s to 0:00 ☺️📚 #24b4monday #readathon #currentread

Just started reading the second book in the series the school for good and evil, so far so good. Fingers cross I predicted the ending right🤞

Such a good book so far!! #pick🥰🥰

Middle grade but trying to save fairy tales and themselves these 2 girls have to bind together to get it done. One is evil one is good but friendship helps them through. Can‘t wait to give this to my niece to read.

This is the second book in The School For Good And Evil trilogy. A World Without Princes is intense and filled with chaos! It's boys versus girls this time but someone has a secret agenda and will go to any lengths to see it fulfilled.
#audiobook #ya #fantasy

Setting up for the eclipse in South Carolina. Unfortunately the clouds came in before the eclipse started but still got to see some of it!

Breakfast and a book! I know I keep posting with the same book but I LOVE the cover 😍

Reading on the deck over looking the beach

Reading at a super cute French cafe near the hotel #reading #cafe

Yummy chocolates while I read!!!

After a long day of cleaning I decided I wanted to read something lighter and magical, so I borrowed this from my classroom library! 👩‍🏫📚❤️

The second Book of this series was as good as the first one 😍 Let's start the third one ... 📖 Das zweite Buch dieser Reihe hat mir auch sehr gut gefallen . Es ist einfach mal was anderes. 🙏🏻❤️

For a sequel it wasn't my favorite. I loved all the characters and hated their decisions. It was all about a gender war between boys and girls but like...where are the trans and non-binary kids? Also there was more bullying in this one, I got the context but didn't enjoy it. The cliffhanger ending was distressing. Mainly I love the characters still and read it because I enjoy the world they live in. I just didn't like this particular story.

So are you in the school for good or Evil? 😛 To be true, I'm really unsure, I think I'm something in between. Have a beautiful evening 💞

I don't know how I feel about this book. It raised a lot of issues and stereotypes that were never actually dealt with in this book. I'm definitely going to read book 3 right away and I hope it wrap everything up and deals with the blatant sexism laced throughout this whole book

Really enjoyed this. Definitely continued the theme and concept over from the first book really well. I still love the fairy tale aspects and the odes to the great fantasy classics. A few twists in there surprised me, which I really liked. Need to get to the book store and grab the third one as soon as I can!

So far, just as enjoyable as the first one!

I enjoyed the first book so much, I ordered the boxset!

#amreading #currentlyreading #fairytale

I found that this book dragged a bit and I was unimpressed with how the author pitted friend against friend and boys against girls. We are not each other's enemies. I liked the intrigue and the ending but I wasn't happy that in choosing a partner friends had to be left behind. I'm hoping this gets rectified in the next book.

Very much a second in a trilogy kind of book, but the ending was good and I'm excited to read the third.

PLOT TWIST AHH