Azu is Reading A World Without Princes (The School for Good and Evil #2) by Soman Chainani
After saving themselves and their fellow students from a life pitched against one another, Sophie and Agatha are back home again, living happily ever after. But life isn’t exactly a fairytale. When Agatha secretly wishes she’d chosen a different happy ending with Prince Tedros, the gates to the School for Good and Evil open once again. But Good and Evil are no longer enemies and Princes and Princesses may not be what they seem, as new bonds form and old ones shatter.
Review
It doesn’t get better, it’s just getting worse.
The first book has an end, but they weren’t Happily Ever After. They needed more. And though I’m good with the idea of princesses –or just girls– not needing princes, what this book is about isn’t exactly what I was expecting.
How will be the world if there weren’t any prince — any resemblance of a prince at all? That I was expecting.
How will be the world if the princes were seen as-? Uhm… I think that will be a spoiler.
The point is that I was expecting what the title was hinting: a world without princes. And I think we had even more of them than before.
If there’s something those books are teaching me is that I better be true to myself, because even if the world is ending, I will find some sort of peace. I still think that a bit of communication for every part will have made all that rollercoaster smoother, but they’re stubborn people, each and every one of them. They all took the impulsive, rash decision, and everything went complex, harder than needed. And to what end?
Yeah, I’m taking it better, not looking at it too close nor looking for meanings, just reading, and I’m getting invested with the story. I feel like everything until now has been accumulated tension and is finally time for the climax. Is finally time for every piece to fall in place. I mean, not in this book, this book is the harder part of a hella, steep climb, where you’re exhausted and able to see the desired top. The next book is the climax, or at least that’s what I hope for. All this build-up tension is maddening.
Phrases that I liked so much that I marked them while reading
«There is an uneasiness that remains after your best friend tries to kill you.»
— Sophie Makes a Wish.«“How do they know if they’re happy?”
“If they have to ask, they probably aren’t.”»
— Sophie Makes a Wish.«Why did everything she love try to leave her?»
— Double Crossings.«“Because she was my friend, Tedros. The only friend I’d ever known. And I couldn’t imagine a life without her.”»
— The Uninvited Guest.«Tedros’ eyes misted. “It’s always the princess who gets her fairy-tale ending,” he said in Agatha’s face. “This time, it feels like it’s mine.”»
— The Uninvited Guest.«“I feel like I’m missing something — ”
“A brain,” Hester murmured.»
— The Five Rules.«“I’m willing to risk my life if it means peace.”»
— The Five Rules.«Hester paused, taking this in. “Look, I’ll endure this hideous spell and get you two home. But only if it’s what you really want this time.”»
— The Five Rules.«Sophie’s mouth parched. She’d always dreamed that one day she’d be in a castle full of gorgeous, virile boys.
She should have been more specific.»
— A Boy by Any Other Name.«Leave it to a librarian to find the book she needed, she thought.»
— Sader’s Secret History.«Perhaps he’d foreseen even before she’d arrived that he’d die for her. And still he’d smiled at her. Still he’d helped her.»
— Sader’s Secret History.
