Entertaining ... The events of Rebel English Academy are often grim — rape, murder and torture, with a pair of pliers going to work on a toenail — but the tone throughout is light and even buoyant. That’s the book’s charm, and also its limitation ... But a familiar pleasure is still a pleasure, and the book is alive throughout with a sense of death’s-head mischief. It won’t keep you thinking, but that bit about the pliers will make you both wince and grin.
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