Meanwhile, her best friend Agatha, who isn't stereotypically pretty and withdrawn, is deemed the perfect candidate for the School for Evil.

Sophie must kiss Tedros to prove they are in the wrong schools and go home; he denies her, however, after she refuses to save him out of selfishness.

Sophie begins her transformation into evil when Tedros asks Agatha to be his princess: she loses - and then forsakes - her perfect beauty and attacks the School for Good.

During the battle, Sophie learns the School Master is Evil, and the reason Good wins every fairy tale is because the Storian (the enchanted fountain pen that writes the fairy tales) is atoning the School Master for the murder of his brother, who was Good.

This triggers a wave of mysterious attacks on Sophie, which threaten the entire village and cause the two girls to be run out of town.

In the wake of Sophie and the School Master's kiss, Evil has been shown capable of love, and all the previous fairy tale villains are given a second chance.

Sophie refuses and returns to Rafal; the two sides begin to prepare for a war on the night the sun will melt completely.

Afterwards, Sophie becomes the Dean of the School for Evil, feeling content with her new life; Agatha and Tedros arrive at Camelot, seeking to restore it to its former glory.

The books included in the Camelot years are Quests for Glory, a Crystal of Time, and One True King.

When a mysterious villain known as "the Snake" emerges, terrorising the land the old friends must work together to save the Endless Woods.

A false king has claimed the throne of Camelot, sentenced Tedros to death, and forced Sophie to be his queen.

Agatha and the students at the School for Good and Evil must find a way to restore Tedros to his throne and save Camelot before all of their fairy tales come to a lethal end.

The attempts drive the brothers apart, creating a rift that threatens the balance of Good and Evil in the Endless Woods.

Rhian and Rafal both lay separate claims to the School while Peter Pan attempts to kill them both.

After a long and arduous battle, Peter is killed by the Storian, while Rhian and Rafal go to confront it on who will be the School Master.

When Soman Chainani was younger, he did not have access to cable, the Internet, or video games; he only had a TV and VHS tapes of Walt Disney Animation Studios's films, many of which were based on classic fairy tales.

At university, the difference between the original stories and Disney's versions captivated him when he took a class about the history of fairy tales.

[5] Disney took the original fairy tales — filled with complexity and darkness and often horror — and essentially pasteurized them to make them more entertaining, and arguably more "appropriate" for children.

I'm always struck by the fact that the original Grimms' stories often spoke loudest to older teenaged readers, while Disney tries to peddle these tales to a younger audience, often by changing the core of the story.Chainani first began working on The School for Good and Evil in June 2010.

In this way, by creating his own series, he aimed to dispel the commonly held stereotypes and deliver an original tale devoid of cliches.

[7] When he first began working on The School for Good and Evil, Chainani expected it to become a treatment for a screenplay he could sell.

[6] According to its editorial director—Phoebe Yeh—she "knew in [her] gut that [the company] were going to have a winner" from the novel's first sentence, being "blown away" by the originality, premise, characters, lore, and language.

[23] In 2020, Netflix announced it would take over and release a film adaptation of the novel, directed by Paul Feig.

In addition, Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Laurence Fishburne and Michelle Yeoh all have supporting roles in the film.