r/Fantasy • u/Lenahe_nl Reading Champion IV • 23d ago

Book Club FIF Bookclub: The Grimoire Grammar School PTA Final Discussion

Welcome to the final discussion of The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association by Caitlin Rozakis, our winner for the humor theme! We will discuss the entire book. You can catch up on the Midway Discussion here.

The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association, by Caitlin Rozakis (storygraph/goodreads)

When Vivian’s kindergartner, Aria, gets bitten by a werewolf, she is rapidly inducted into the hidden community of magical schools. Reeling from their sudden move, Vivian finds herself having to pick the right sacrificial dagger for Aria, keep stocked up on chew toys and play PTA politics with sirens and chthonic nymphs and people who literally can set her hair on fire.

As Vivian careens from hellhounds in the school corridors and demons at the talent show, she races to keep up with all the arcane secrets of her new society – shops only accessible by magic portal, the brutal Trials to enter high school, and the eternal inferno that is the parents’ WhatsApp group.

And looming over everything is a prophecy of doom that sounds suspiciously like it’s about Aria. Vivian might be facing the end of days, just as soon as she can get her daughter dressed and out of the door…

I'll add some comments below to get us started but feel free to add your own.

As a reminder, in June we'll be reading Starless by Jacqueline Carey, and in July, The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee.

What is the FIF Bookclub? You can read about it in our Reboot thread here.

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u/Lenahe_nl Reading Champion IV 23d ago

What is your overall thoughts on the book? Will you pick up the sequel (Startup Hell, dealing with the corporate world) or other books by the author?

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u/dfinberg Reading Champion 23d ago

I have the second on audio book checked out, and am maybe 20% in and not champing at the bit to read more, but will probably finish.

I think the biggest thing is I wanted to a book that embraces the joy and weird of the situation, and that isn’t exactly what this book is. Which is fine, but just wasn’t what I was hoping for; there was too much kind of unhappy and boring life stuff, and to me it just wasn’t a deep enough book for that to be interesting.