The Last Ever After (School for Good and Evil, #3)

by Soman Chainani

THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL is now a major motion picture from Netflix, starring Academy Award winner Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Yeoh, Cate Blanchett, and many more!

The third book in the series – this magical fantasy adventure delivers action, romance and more twists than ever before.

Former best friends Sophie and Agatha thought their fairy tale’s ending was sealed when they went their separate ways, each in the arms of a boy. But their storybook is about to be rewritten, and, this time, theirs isn't the only one.

With the girls apart, Evil has taken over and the villains of the past have come back to turn the world of Good and Evil upside down. With the forces of Good in deathly peril, Agatha and Sophie must work together to restore balance. Will they find their way to being friends again? And will their new ending be the last Ever After they've been searching for?

• ISBN13: 9780007502868
• Publish Date: 21 July 2015
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: HarperCollins Children's Books
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 672
• Language: English
• URL: http://harpercollins.co.uk

Reviews

[Silvara]

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I loved getting to meet some of the 'famous' fairy tale characters. And the twists their stories took. (Though I could have done without a geriatric Peter Pan... Poor Peter!!) Merlin was hilarious, and spot on if you like the way he's portrayed in The Sword In The Stone.

I also liked the surprise twist with Hort, as well as the fact the witch coven played big roles in this book again. All the books have been a fun read, but this one was a little bittersweet too since it's the last one. Agatha did a lot of worrying about not being a good Queen. She was scared, and she and Tedros had a lot of fights/squabbles through out the book. But she didn't realize that he was insecure too.

I liked that we got to see yet another side of Agatha, as well as a new dimension of Tedros. (Though in the beginning I mostly wanted to smack him. And then he started actually explaining himself to Agatha and it got better!) Sophie was nearly perfect. I mean, she was a little annoying at times. But as far as her reactions to everything that was happening to and around her? They were spot on for how I see her character.

I never liked Rafal though. Which since he is Evil in more than the 'good verses evil' way, works. But even when he was being sweet with Sophie I didn't like him.

There were so many twists in this! Some of them completely unexpected. Most added to the plot, but a few I just kind of was like "well okay then..." I liked this book over-all, and if you've read the other two books in the series you should read this one as well. But I think I liked the first two books better than this one. I still liked this book, it just didn't click with me quite as much.

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[stressedrach]

I had not read the 2 books before this in the series although that did not matter as this book can be read as a standalone book. It does cover events that happened in the past so I knew what had gone on before this book.

At first I took a disliking to Agatha, as it seemed she stole Sophie’s true love (Tedros) away but in the end I liked her, I liked all of the characters.

It was lovely to read about so many fairytale characters in this book but how they are many years from their stories, old and completely different. My particular favourite had to be Merlin he was just the same as I could ever imagined him to be.

In this book the sun is dying evil is trying to take over, Sophie has the School Masters ring on her finger and her Ever After seems to be in place. The problem is that Agatha and Tedros’ Ever After was meant to finish but it hasn’t and it is their quest to save the Readers World and get the ring off Sophie’s finger which in turn will get rid of the School Master.

Wow this book had so many twists and turns, just when I thought we were ‘out of the woods’ something popped up and things started getting bad.

I really enjoyed this book, it was a little longer than I am used to but the story flowed well throughout and it was a fast paced read.

I look forward to reading more from Soman Chainani.