Hello awesome nerds and happy Saturday everyone!

I hope your week was better than mine and that you’re ready to fully embrace the weekend!

I had tutoring classes this morning and I need to work a bit extra, as something quite unexpected came up.

But that’s not the reason why I’m here today. Continuing with the book-to-movies adaptations theme, today I’m here to share with you my thoughts regarding The Good for Good and Evil, the latest Netflix movie.

So, apparently, The School for Good and Evil is a Middle Grade/YA best-selling series, which follows Sophie and Aggie, two best friends who get transported in this boarding school that trains the heroes and villains of classic fairytales.

The movie was almost 2.5 hours long and, to me, this felt a bit longer than necessary. I had seen the opening twist coming, so everything from this point on was a bit predictable to me, except perhaps the major revelation towards the end of the movie. And that’s actually what saved the movie for me.

In this classic take of ultimate good and ultimate evil, only Aggie was a breath of fresh air, claiming that not everything is black or white, and that we’re all complex, unique human beings.

Of course, I cannot ignore the ICONIC performance of Charlize Theron, who, to me, took the movie to a whole new level!

The finale was also something I hadn’t seen coming, so now I hope that the rest of the books get adapted to movies, as well.

Although I don’t normally read Middle Grade and younger YA books, the movie intrigued me quite a bit to give the first book of the series a try.

“The first kidnappings happened two hundred years before. Some years it was two boys taken, some years two girls, sometimes one of each. But if at first the choices seemed random, soon the pattern became clear. One was always beautiful and good, the child every parent wanted as their own. The other was homely and odd, an outcast from birth. An opposing pair, plucked from youth and spirited away.

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…?”

I suppose nobody’s too old for yet another fairytale. Don’t you agree?

Do you guys read Middle Grade books? If so, which one did you recently read? Have you read The School for Good and Evil? What did you think of it?

Let me know all your thoughts and feelings in the comment section down below.

Thank you all so very much for stopping by once again. It truly means the world to me and I want you to know that I most certainly don’t take your presence here for granted; I never will.

Have an amazing weekend, y’all! Stay safe and stay positive!

Till next time… Toodles!