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The School for Good and Evil (novel)
The School for Good and Evil AuthorSoman ChainaniIllustratorIacopo BrunoCover artistIacopo BrunoCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishSeriesThe School for Good and EvilGenreFairytale fantasyPublisherHarperCollinsPagesFollowed byA World Without Princes Websiteschoolforgoodandevil.com/books/the-school-for-good-and-evil/
The School for Good and Evil is a 2013 fairytale fantasy novel written by Soman Chainani. The first novel in the The School for Good and Evil series and Chainani's debut novel, it follows Sophie, a beautiful girl who believes she will be a Princess, and her friend Agatha, an oddity who is deemed a witch by the villagers, who are kidnapped to the School for Good and Evil. After their fortunes are reversed, Agatha being taken to the School for Good while Sophie is taken to the School for Evil, their friendship is put to the test.
The book was first published in the United States on May 14, 2013, by HarperCollins. It was published in the United Kingdom on June 6 of the same year. It is followed by five sequels and is being made into a film adaptation by Netflix. The book has received positive reviews from critics who praised the novel's wit and the oddity of its storyline.
Plot
In the village of Gavaldon, every 4 years, two children at the age of 12 and older are kidnapped into the surrounding Endless Woods. The kidnapped children are spirited away to the "School for Good and Evil," where they train to become fairy tale heroes or villains. While most fear the unknown force, pink-loving, beautiful Sophie dreams of being kidnapped to become a princess. Meanwhile, her best friend, Agatha, sulky and ugly, is deemed the perfect candidate for the School for Evil. When the day of the kidnapping arrives, Sophie and Agatha are both kidnapped.
To Sophie and Agatha's horror, both of them are sent to the "wrong" schools: Sophie is a "Never", a student in the School for Evil, and Agatha an "Ever", a student in the School for Good. Sophie unsuccessfully attempts to switch schools with Agatha, while Agatha wants the two to go home. This proves difficult, as Sophie is determined she is Good and is smitten with Tedros, son of King Arthur, who also notices her.
Being forced to attend classes, Agatha flunks most of her classes, but discovers she can hear and grant wishes. After going to the School Master's tower with a stymph (a skeletal bird), Sophie and Agatha are trapped in a fairy tale. The School Master gives them a riddle to prove they were in the wrong places. After disrupting a school assembly, Agatha is confined to her room, and Sophie is sent to Doom Room, where the Beast chops off her hair. In rage, Sophie drowns the Beast as revenge. The girls eventually find the answer to the riddle is True Love's Kiss. To help Sophie get Tedros' kiss, Agatha, disguised as a cockroach, accompanies and helps with Sophie's classes. With Agatha's help, Sophie starts ranking well in her classes, becoming the best Never student.
Agatha finds she is being used to make Tedros fall for Sophie. That way, Sophie would never have to leave, as she believes Tedros is her true love. Finally, Tedros promises to kiss Sophie after they both win the Trial by Tale, a test where they need to survive teachers' traps and other students. However, Sophie refuses to protect him out of selfishness, while Agatha saves him instead. Hoodwinking Good's greatest prince gives Sophie popularity at the School for Evil and the title of "#1 Villain". Simultaneously, Sophie begins to show deepening resentment and anger towards Agatha, as she believes Agatha ruined her Happily Ever After and stole her place.
Tedros develops feelings for Agatha after she saved him, unlike Sophie. Agatha finds her own inner beauty and belief in Good after consultation with Professor Clarissa Dovey; while Sophie begins to suffer from Nemesis Dreams, dreams which the best villains which expose their nemesis is. Sophie believes the person in her dreams is Tedros, but however, the other Nemesis should grow stronger. Tedros does not show strengthening, but Agatha is progressively becoming a better princess. Sophie learns her Nemesis is not Tedros, but Agatha and transforms into what she has become internally: a jealous, shriveled witch with no remorse nor mercy. At the Circus of Talents, a competition based on talents, Tedros confesses his love for Agatha and asks her out to the Evers' Snow Ball, which she accepts. Upon hearing this, Sophie tries to destroy both schools and eliminate Agatha.
Determined for her happy ending, Sophie finds the School Master's true identity to be Evil as the Storian atoned him for murdering his Good brother. Believing she can find happily ever after as his true love, she kisses him, but remembers Nevers are incapable of love. The School Master tries to kill Agatha so Sophie can be his. When Agatha is about to get hit, Sophie sacrifices herself for Agatha. The ghost of the deceased Good brother returns to save his students, and seer and history teacher, August Sader sacrifices his own body to destroy the Evil School Master and dies in the process. Sophie dies shortly after and Agatha, distraught, kisses her. Sophie revives as Agatha's kiss was true love, and she and Agatha are teleported back to Gavaldon, realizing they don't need a prince and Tedros is left in disappointment.
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