This story feels like a fairly standard fantasy in a unique world and set at a magic school and everything that goes along with it. There's some adventure in the form of tasks the students have to complete off campus with groups. Where it differs, and shines really, are the characters. 

Each side characters feels fleshed out with their own backgrounds and goals. They interact with each other in a believable way instead of simply being there for the MC to get something from. 

The MC is a well written, though tragic, character. It's clear early on that she's a trans and that causing every bit of phycological problems that it does in the real world in addition to a few that are fantasy world specific, I don't want to give it away so just read the story if you want to find out.

So all and all it's fun It's well written and I liked it. Give it a read I think you'll like it as well. 

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This is an ambitious new story that's well-written and set in a creative fantasy world with a detailed system of magic. The world doesn't just feel like "yet another generic fantasy world" - some thought clearly went into trying to do some unique world-building.

The protagonist, let's say "Em", is an uncracked egg (trans and doesn't realize it yet) and it's hard not to root for them given all the horrible treatment they get from life in general. As of Ch19, Em is just beginning to realize they're trans. This also plays an important role in the story due to the way magic works in the world.

While some stories don't do nearly enough to create conflict for their protagonists, this one is quite the opposite, with just about everyone around Em being a completely unforgivable monster to them. That's a good thing in my view (for a while, anyway) as I think most stories tend to not create enough conflict to really draw people in. Maybe I just like riding tortured roller coasters in my books. Even so, though, I will say that the motivation of some characters to be as absolutely over-the-top murderously horrid as they are in this case seems a little hard to buy into at times. Still, it wasn't anything completely out of thin air with no rationale so I was able to suspend disbelief and roll with it, and at this point I'm quite invested in the hope that Em will come into her own and give them (Patrick, Grace, Samael, Jacqueline, etc) all some cosmic heapings of comeuppance for their abuse.

This isn't one of those stories that does nothing but torture the MC though - there is at least one friendly person at school along with a mentor who is looking out for Em, and it looks like things are improving for Em. Definitely looking forward to see how things play out from here!

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