Dan’s Reviews > The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents > Status Update

I suspect the author is using this book to work through some residual childhood emotions—a lot of what the protag is feeling reminds me of tumblr posts about being a former gifted kid.

Vin's emotions re: feeling alone and isolated didn't make sense to me—she's at a school full of problem kids and she was inexplicably assuming no one likes her and she's uniquely bad among them, and she was nervous about the headmistress, too, despite the headmistress giving zero indication that she's not cool. So I'm trying to keep in mind that 13 y/o emotions often seem nonsensical to adults.