The School for Good and Evil #2: A World without Princes audiobook

Minor spoilers for book oneIf you know me, you'll know that I very rarely give books five stars. Even if I really love it, I normally mark it as a 4.5 and call it a day. Which is why it came as such a surprise that I slapped a 5-star on A World Without Princes right off the bat. I went in with sky-high expectations, considering how much I loved The School for Good and Evil, and it broke every single one of them. A World Without Princes picks up a couple months after the events of the first book. Sophie and Agatha are back home living their happily ever after. But one ill-fated wish later, the girls find themselves back at The School For Good & Evil, except it's not as they remember. As the girls chased their elegant sliver-haired bun through Valir's princely blue arches and murals, they gawked at the once virile visions of princes destroying demons and helpless princesses, now flaunting different endings: Snow White smashing out of her glass coffin with her fists, Red Riding Hood slitting the wolf's throat, Sleeping Beauty setting her spindle on fire. The title is fitting indeed. As a result of Sophie and Agatha's happy ending last time, the other girls learned that they don't don't need a prince to save them—they can save themselves. The princes and Neverboys have been kicked out and The School For Good & Evil is now the School for Girls.They've taken feminism to a tyrannical level by teaching the students that boys are the scum of the earth and should be enslaved while girls rule. Masculine traits, such as destroying things, are discouraged. From now on, it's all girl all the time.What I love about this series is that it isn't afraid to tackle big subjects, but does so in a fun and humorous way. The School for Girls is what the world would look like if extreme feminist Nazis took over. There's no equality. Boys and girls are as different as Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus and must be enemies. "Everything in this school is about being a girl!" Hester screeched. "Do you know how hard I've tried to prove I'm more than a girl and now I have to live in a castle full of them! You can't have a school without boys! Even we know that and we'd rather kill ourselves than touch one!" I completely agree with Hester. I hate the sexist, misogynist world we live in, but I don't think swinging the spectrum the other way would be a good idea either. It's all about balance. This book also questions what it entails to be a boy and vice versa. "Boys never have real feelings. At least not ones that they don't toss or hide." Society loves to force the mentality that men are from Mars and women are from Venus on us, and this books just laughs at those stereotypes, which is fantastic. Pink doesn't have to be for girls and blue doesn't have to be for boys. I like wearing dresses and wearing my hair long, but I also love reading Shounen manga and playing video games. There isn't supposed to be a line!God bless the parents who raised this child.Plus, I love, love, love the fact that Chainani never mentions the words "lesbian" or "gay" even though it's such a huge part of the narrative. Love is love, we shouldn't have to differentiate between them.Speaking of the romance, I don't even know who to ship anymore.This is an real love triangle. It's not just two boys fighting over a girl, it's three-way. As for the characters, they're as wonderful as I remembered them. Sophie, my darling, darling Sophie. She continues to make a lot of bad decisions here, partially because of selfishness, but nowhere near the level in the first book. She's grown so much and I can understand her motives even when she does Evil.Tedros gets a lot more screen time here and as a result, his character is far more rounded out than in the first book. He's not just a dense pretty boy anymore. Like Sophie, he makes a lot of bad choices, but I can get where he's coming from. He just wants the same thing Sophie wants and, well, now you see my dilemma in the romance department. If you haven't picked up this series yet, run to your nearest book store immediately. It will dazzle you and leave you with a book hangover, but you won't even care because an overdose of awesome is always welcome.Now if you'll excuse me, I'll just be here waiting for the next book to come out.My review of The School For Good & EvilMy review of The Last Ever After

Re-read 8/11/20Basically there isn't much to say other than: 1. Hester, Anadil and Dot, needs recognition for not only providing us with humourous one liners, but also being the glue that kept everything together. I can't imagine the book without them. 💅👑 The real queens this series.2. I love Agatha and Sophie needs therapy.3. Tedros is so stupid. He does grow on you after a while, but that boy is so easily influenced by others. 4. This book is probably my least favorite book in the series for some aspects that I didn't like as much, but I still enjoyed it.⚠️Spoilers ahead⚠️R.I.P. Tristan- our unproblematic king R.I.P. - Tedros+Sophie's common sense

THIS BOOK WAS SO GOOOOOD! so many plot twists! oh, and THAT END

danm it now i have to get the third one too

ER.MAH.GERD. Thee cutest fairytale I have read in a long time! Synopsis:Good Reads Description This year, best friends Sophie and Agatha are about to discover where all the lost children go: the fabled School for Good & Evil, where ordinary boys and girls are trained to be fairy tale heroes and villains. As the most beautiful girl in Gavaldon, Sophie has dreamed of being kidnapped into an enchanted world her whole life. With her pink dresses, glass slippers, and devotion to good deeds, she knows she’ll earn top marks at the School for Good and graduate a storybook princess. Meanwhile Agatha, with her shapeless black frocks, wicked pet cat, and dislike of nearly everyone, seems a natural fit for the School for Evil.But when the two girls are swept into the Endless Woods, they find their fortunes reversed—Sophie’s dumped in the School for Evil to take Uglification, Death Curses, and Henchmen Training, while Agatha finds herself in the School For Good, thrust amongst handsome princes and fair maidens for classes in Princess Etiquette and Animal Communication.. But what if the mistake is actually the first clue to discovering who Sophie and Agatha really are…?The School for Good & Evil is an epic journey into a dazzling new world, where the only way out of a fairy tale is to live through one.Doesn't that sound amazing? Well it is. This book provided me with such an adventure during a hard time. I was recently struggling with a lot of personal things and ended up finding this book at the library. I picked it up and read it in two days. This book showed me true friendship and gave a whole new light to fairytales. I felt the same way I did when reading through the Harry Potter series. I love when school life is done right in books. The creativity throughout this novel was so charming. From the way each shool functions, to their food, spells, and the characters, I fell in love. Enough rambling... let's get down to it. To avoid spoilers, scroll down to The Verdict for a brief summary.----World Building Chailin created a world within many with this series. We are so used to hearing about different kingdoms within each fairytale we all know and love, but I never expected the author to connect them in such a way to make them flow so well together. The idea of two schools training the chosen children to live in new fairytales, was brilliant. I felt as though Gavaldon was a very weak civilization. Considering every else other kingdom already knows of the schools and wishes for their children to be chosen for greatness, made Gavaldon seem a bit.. out of the loop? They are merely referred to as readers and to me belittles the children from there. The author's description of the schools and his creativity in making the two school completely different but work together, was so well done, I couldn't get enough of the two schools. The School Masters Tower was such a neat concept to me, having the one who controlls the storian (the cute little pen who writes the fairytales) looking over both schools was really intriguing and the entire time I wanted to know more. The forest surrounding the school preventing anyone from entering the school grounds was extremely creepy (IN A GOOD WAY). There are so many fairytale creatures dwelling within it's depths that I kept wondering what would be the next thing to show up. The world felt so new yet nostalgic and I don't think anyone could have written it better. The CharactersAgatha and Sophie are the books main focus. I found the two girls, being so different, also flowed together well. I think we've all felt what it's like to be alone and having that one friend who is always there through everything is something we all want to keep in tact forever. Seeing the determination within the two girls was extremely heart warming. I found the transformation between Sophie and Agatha to be fitting. Sophie eventually turned into the thing she dreaded and Agatha ended up being the last thing she ever expected. The complete opposite of eachother. I really enjoyed most of the side characters but felt like Tedros, Beatrix and all the Evers were a bit flat for me. I felt like they didn't really stand out. They had no originality and I honestly questioned why Agatha chose Tedros to fall for Tedros in the first place. She deserves a lot better.... Now, onto the School Master.... this was a very odd character for me. Considering he was one of the brothers of Good and Evil who started it all, I found his mind to be completely corrupted by so much anger. Why the frig was he running a school full of children, let alone wanting Sophie to be with him? Weird. Plot This was such an interesting take on Fairy Tales. The fact all of them have to go to a school first before being chosen for their own Fairy Tale? I dig it. But the school wasn't the thing to bring me to love the book. It was the fact the two girls were opposite by appearance but both believed their appearance determined their personalities too. The fact Sophie thought she was a princess while dressed in the pinkest of dresses and Agatha thought she was a witch due to her living situation and black dresses, came to be the opposite of who they actually were! MIND BLOWING STUFFFFFFFFFFF It's like the saying "Don't judge a book by its cover." (I do everytime... oops) BUT IT APPLIES TO THESE GIRLS TOO. This book was so well written and beautifully told. It felt more like an adventure than just some story. I give this book at LEAST five stars. It not only helped me get my mind clear from the stressful things going on in life, but also gave me the nostalgia of a good fairy tale. HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO THOSE WHO ENJOY FAIRY TALES! -Grimm

You know and I know, that we aren't in the least bit surprised by my ratings of this one. Saying I loved it is understating the feeling and emotions that I felt while reading this one.Every character, esp. Sophie I adore and just could not get enough of. I want more and I'm so glad that I have the third book to jump right into.Me after finishing this one:

I never had the time to write a review, so I'm just gonna say it was a great and amazing book. so unique and different as well, and there were crazy twists which I had never expected. totally loved this.

I thought this was a step up from the first book and I'm so glad I picked it up, even after not being totally convinced by that first title.I love how the author explores the ambiguity of a certain "black and white" concepts, like good vs evil and girls vs boys. this is a children's book but it definitely tries to push you and make you think, which I can't appreciate more.a lot of people call this book both misandristic and misogynist but I can't say I agree at all. quite the contrary. this books tries to tell you that you don't have to choose between true love, a friend or anything. and that's applied to both girls and boys. life can, and should, be all of those things. and I think that's a great message.full review here: https://catshelf.wordpress.com/2016/0...

Well this one was a twist from the first book. Sophie and Agatha are back home but both unhappy. Sophie is struggling to be good and not wanting her father to get married to one she considers a home wrecker, and Agatha missing her prince. A wish later and their world is flipped again, hunted the find themselves back at the School for Good and Evil. Only now instead of Good/Evil is is Girls vs Boys! And the cliche's continue... With some new faces and old ones, some characters have really changed others I still like. It was interesting to see the changes with the girls especially Beatrice and Dot. I love that I got a better feel of the inner turmoil going on with Sophie. This book she has more depth. I actually came to enjoy her character. I still don't quite like her. She is still too whiny and selfish. BUt some of it I get in this one. Agatha disappointed me a bit. She just seemed mopey for her prince but really did nothing to fix or understand what was going on without others leading the way or pushing her along. Not that she was bad, but it was a let down after the first book with her. I expected her to solve things quicker, take more initiative.The ending has me near desperate to read the last book of the trilogy! While I could tell there was another force at work this time I didn't expect what we got! Woah!

I LOVED The School for Good and Evil and kept thinking what happened to Sophie and Agatha. The story follows exactly where we stopped after both girls return home. But when Agatha makes a wish, things change and the wheels of a new fairytale unfolds.Sophie hasn't changed much, still jealous, possessive, witchy, yet everyone thinks she was the princess in training and Agatha was the witch even her own mother! No one expects that Aggie has a beautiful princess and a heart of gold inside of her. Can't wait to see how the story unfolds. But I don't like the way the author writes sometimes, he makes me feel disgusted, and I don't like how things should always be black-and-white with Sophie and Agatha.