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  By Ankita Bhargava (Spoilers for the first two chapters of The School for Good and Evil) The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani   revolves around two girls named Sophie and Agatha. They live in a small town, where every four years, two children are kidnapped by the School Master. Those children (one good, one evil) later show up in storybooks that mysteriously arrive in the village, after being taken to twin schools of good and evil. Sophie's dream is to be a Good princess, while Agatha is the perfect candidate for and Evil witch. However, when they are finally taken to the school, Sophie is taken to the School for Evil, while Agatha is taken to the School for Good.  I really liked this book because of the way that it immediately introduces the character's personalities, their flaws and their relationships with other characters. In the first page, we learn that Sophie wants to marry a prince and that she is a little conceited. It also introduces Agatha as her po...

  Persepolis Rising Contains minor spoilers for The Expanse series By - Karl Vu Persepolis Rising is the 7th book in The Expanse series, and the start of the Laconia arc in the story. 28 years after the events of Babylon's Ashes .   Since the end of the Free Navy conflict, the Transport Union was founded unify the various factions of people living in the asteroid belt and give the lower class citizens of the belt a purpose. The Transport Union has established itself as a superpower in the Sol system, controlling most trade within the Sol system, and all trade between every ring system. Earth has fully recovered from the Free Navy's attacks, and the Sol system's economy has been re-stabilized. The crew of the Rocinante are contracted by the Transport Union to deal with the people of the Freehold system, who have been violating Transport Union regulations. After the crew finishes up and goes through the Freehold ring to start heading back to Sol, the Laconia system broadcas...

By Rose Benjamin In the popular Sherlock Holmes books, the narrator is Holmes's friend Dr. Watson, who accompanies him on many of his adventures. It is sometimes mentioned in the stories how Watson documents the adventures of his friend, and the two characters occasionally get into arguments about Watson's style of writing them. Watson wants to write the stories to show the observant and clever qualities of his friend, while Holmes would rather they be more educational to the reader. I believe he once commented that he should start documenting some of his adventures himself, in a more educational way. So, what would a story be like if Holmes had written it instead of Watson? For one thing, Holmes tends to be concise with his words, so he would probably go on fewer tangents than Watson tends to do, especially at the beginning of stories. Watson tends to disclose quite a bit of somewhat unnecessary information at the beginning, including, in many instances, the fact that he canno...