I thought the world created in this story is a great one. It’s like our world but with some magical twists that worked pretty well for me. I thought the book over all tried to do too much. It made the serious issues tackled feel slightly forced and cheesy instead of the serious focus they should have each had. The story is about Shay, a young witch student who is desperate to win a full ride scholarship and full admission into the magical college of her dreams. When the head of the selection committee and drama teacher pressures her to apply for the musical she goes along with it. There is a huge grooming/abuse of power plot line that pretty much takes over the other pieces of the story, and I’m not saying that’s not worth a book because it is, but the other issues were also worthy of focus. It is a cute rivals to lovers story which was all the more important for it’s queer focus that just didn’t seem to be fleshed out enough for me. There were also diversity issues that I felt like were worthy for more story as well. The characters had a lot of potential and I truly liked the world.