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I've always thought of magic as skating/blading

There are three main types: roller skating and blading are most similar, while ice skating is more different and needs more specific circumstances

They each represent a different thing (evil/good/neutral, offense/defense/healing)

There are different ways to use the skill (figure skating and racing)

Each one comes with its own expectations (ice skating seen as more graceful and poised, while rollerblading more rebellious and edgy)

It hurts when you start out, but once you become better it hurts more when you fall either physically (faster speed equals harder fall) or mentally (trying to perfect a trick but just never getting it right)

You can switch between the different skills better if your a master at one, but it doesn't really smoothly switch still (you may be good at skating but go onto an ice skating rink and its almost a new thing entirely)

It's easier to do in a controlled environment, but it's more useful when its not (but also more dangerous)

A Deadly Education - a book review

dnf at 76% i could not continue this, no matter how hard i tried. it gave me what i was looking for, but not what i was hoping for, and because of that there was a sense of disappointment. i like the concept of the world itself, the school killing its students that exists with no teachers, and the world building was not all that bad. the magic system was alright, not all that exquisite or unique really, aside from the idea of mana. however, that is all i could list in terms of positivity for this book. everything else was a huge disappointment to me. the character writing was atrocious. the characters, all of them, do not have a personality at all! i understand that they cannot really have hobbies in a place like this but that honestly sounds like a poor excuse to not write your characters properly. aside from that, none of them have any prominent characteristics that define them as people. they are all very flat, and that was not something i could stand. the writing style is quite boring, i'll be honest, but it's something i got used to over time. it's not descriptive or poetic or even slightly remarkable. i can usually stand it with most books but with a book such as this one with many issues, it just added on the list of negative aspects. last but not least, the plot. now the plot is just following the main character, who is intolerable, so i did not enjoy it in the slightest. the other characters, like i said before, were not all that remarkable or special either, so they didn't really make up for it. i also want to add that i dislike how the main character is racially stereotypical. it's honestly disgusting and it made me hate her even more. all in all, i would not recommend this book to anyone unless you have the ability to stay patient with intolerable characters for an entire book.