Jamie Noguchi

Sep 9, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Jeremy Whitley |Jamie Noguchi |Soman Chainani |Iacopo Bruno

Rich and strange (and kitted out with an eye-catching cover), but stronger in the set pieces than the internal logic. Chainani works an elaborate sea change akin to Gregory Maguire’s Wicked (1995), though he leaves the waters muddied. Every four years, two children, one regarded as particularly nice and the other particularly nasty, are snatched from the village of Gavaldon by the shadowy School Master to attend the divided titular school.