Madame Weatherberry has started a school of magic for children who were born with magic.
Brystal is born in the Southern Kingdom that forbidden girls to get an education or read books. She love books and her brother has been getting her books to read. Her father is a justice and very sexist and very cruel. Her good brother is studying to be justice and her elder bad brother has already graduated and is practicing law himself.
The law of the land is unjust.
In order to find access to books, she found a job at the local library to do cleaning after library close. There she found the banned books section, and read about a lot of real history and about magic. She accidentally use a spell and was caught using magic. She was sentenced to dead but was transferred to a labor camp for girls who were born with magic by her own father. He did this to save face.
She was then recruited into the school of magic by Weatherberry.
There she found happiness and friends who have different power of magic. This part of the story is pretty good, and they could do different things with their skills. The school of magic is situated in the In-Between, a magical places for trolls and other magical creatures.
Weatherberry was teaching the children that there are two groups of magical persons, the good ones fairies and bad one witches. It is a bit strange to divide people like that. And the readers would find out the truth about this later in the book.
Pretty imaginative story that reflect something good yet forbidden in real life history.
Highly recommended.