SYNOPSIS

Two best friends, Agatha and Sophie, are snatched from home and delivered to two schools, Good and Evil, where characters train to be in fairy tales.

Agatha wants to go home, while Sophie is determined to switch to the School for Good where she believes she belongs.

After many trials and tortures, they meet the School Master and learn that the only way to change their fates is for Sophie to kiss her true love (Tedros).

In efforts to secure the kiss, Sophie becomes truly evil, ugly and all powerful, while Agatha transforms into a stunning princess of good.

Tedros falls in love with Agatha and together they fight against dies Sophie.

Sophie dies and is then revived by a kiss from Agatha.

And then both girls disappear.

PERFECT AGE 15+

WATCH OUT FOR (Language, Big / Sensitive Topics, Outdated Concepts):

• These are just a few examples to give you a sense of the style – but there’s a lot more:
• At the opening we learn that for hundreds of years, children at the village have been getting abducted by monsters in the middle of the night, to never return.
• If it weren’t bad enough that they were stolen from home, when students fail their exams three times or misbehave or get in trouble, they’re turned into animals, fairies or just disappear.
• The School for Evil prepares students to be ugly, cruel and murderous. The School for Good teaches them beauty tricks and manners. With only these two options, I don’t know which one is worse.
• Girls’ only goal is to find a boy who will make them their princess…? Boys’ only goal is to be desired…?

CAUTION

• There’s a lot of unpalatable imagery and messaging throughout the book – I strongly disagree with the publisher’s “Ages 8 and up” classification. Given the very confusing writing, haphazardly developed plot lines and ambiguous if not completely backward messaging / “morals of the story”, I’m also hard pressed to find any age this book fits.