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ieahleen's review against another edition
1.0
It's just full of misogyny, misandrism, homophobia, fatphobia... I am absolutely not continuing with this series, I can't stand anything in it.
Graphic: Biphobia, Bullying, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Body shaming, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, and Acephobia/Arophobia
Minor: Pedophilia
tinkithesquirelll's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Minor: Sexism, Violence, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and War
lawbooks600's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Score: Six points out of ten.
Man, this was worse than the first book, so much so that I'm a little disheartened, the first book was alright and I hoped the second one would be a much needed improvement to the series. It wasn't. It's highly unlikely that I'll read the third and final instalment in the trilogy since it's more than 600 pages, and I don't think it's worth my time. It starts (more like continues) with the main characters Sophie and Agatha and after the events of the first book the School for Good and School for Evil don't exist anymore. Instead there are new gender segregated schools (Really? They were co-ed and now this. Come on.) called the School for Girls and the School for Boys. More flaws surfaced as I read through more of the narrative. First, I struggled to connect to any of the characters, second is the pacing, since the books I read recently were all slow paced (and sometimes that can let me explore character dynamics or other aspects of the novel but if the characters aren't that well written, what's the point of the slow pacing? I don't get it. It doesn't work here.) The second half of the story had nothing much happening and it fizzled out in the end. Shame. At least the bonus content (of which there were 50 pages) were intriguing enough for me to read and were better than all 430 pages of the book combined.
Graphic: Death, Sexism, Slavery, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail
Full trigger warnings: Blood depiction, physical assault and injury, death of people, sexism, slavery mentionedmapleleaf_rag's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Homophobia, Sexism, and Transphobia
lct's review
Graphic: Homophobia, Misogyny, and Sexism
neko_reads's review against another edition
this book just takes everything the first book worked for (not much) and killed it. the lgbtish relationship? NO we just couldn't be happy with that, there has to be some boy involved
this book just shows the weirdest sexism reversed, homophobic, tasteless book. so the main characters have no character anymore. sophies character is dead, shes just quiet and agatha is TERRIBLE. now her entire world is tedros. Tedros has no character, its terrible.
also the quote "whats a boy? someone who wishes for a girl. whats a girl? someone who wishes for a boy. whats someone who kissed a girl? DEFINITELY A BOY" homophobia if I've ever seen it.
anyway ill shut up about how much I hate this now like IT IS THAT BAD
Graphic: Homophobia, Misogyny, and Sexism
Moderate: Death, Violence, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Death of parent
hayleythegoose's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Transphobia, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Death, Violence, and War
Minor: Confinement, Blood, Death of parent, and Abandonment
rumireads's review against another edition
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Lesbophobia
Moderate: Body shaming, Confinement, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Bullying
wren_acorn's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Docking points for being a tad problematic and because it’s not completely perfect, though I found Soman’s writing improved from the first book. Also wtf happened to Agatha. She changed so much from the first book…
I hear this is commonly thought of as the worst book in the series so I’m excited to see where the story goes from here.
Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism
Minor: Body horror and Homophobia
carmineslamp's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Sexism
Moderate: Death and Gaslighting
Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Torture
Sexism in reference to the girls calling the boys born slaves and the boys just fucking hating women, I guess.