Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I really liked the story and so I decided to give it 4 stars. My only qualms is this book doesn’t hold together from a practical stand point. As long as you don’t try to apply logical thinking to the story and just enjoy it, it’s a pretty amazing read. With that said there are a few things that just don’t make sense and/or make the adults seem like idiots. The first issue is why would parents in the conclaves send their kids to the school in the first place? I understand that developing wizards are vulnerable but conclave kids should be completely safe. I can’t imagine you are constantly dealing with monsters in the conclaves or they wouldn’t be considered safe havens. The amount of monsters your child could potentially encounter in a enclave has to be exponentially smaller compared to the school if for no other reason your surrounded by powerful adult wizards. Then their is the general question of why there isn’t any adult wizards In The school or why someone would come up with a school design for such a hostile environment. The biggest flaw is why make the graduating class go through the monster chamber in the first place? They teleport the kids into the school why not teleport them out. Why is there shafts or vents to the chamber that’s specifically meant to hold the monsters that get in, and why would you put the machinery involved with exterminating them in the same chamber. Even if you don’t think about any of those questions there was a power disparity issue. The MC states many times that she has the power to raze cities why not just ask for the the power to raze the monster chamber. They stated the schools mana couldn’t support the kids, then why not have the kids give a ration of mana to the school? There is also the mix up with school vs monster motivations. It is almost presented as if the school wants kids to die and so again I ask why you would design a system like that or send your child into it. All these logical blips made for a good story but this book is definitely not good world building, Magic system is cool though.