The story is about a school, equivalent to a college or university, that trains the adventurers other high fantasy novels are made of.  It fulfills that premise rather well by focusing on a few freshmen characters and following their own time in the school and associated extra-curricular activities.

As for the school itself, it only offers 4 majors (Warrior, Thief, Mage, Cleric), each of which can also be taken as a minor.  Each student is expected to take a major and a minor.  This breaks down a little because there are very few combinations, resulting in very little variation.  Almost all of the girls take a Mage / Cleric combination.  Meanwhile, the Thief major seems to work poorly with Warrior because of their completely different focus on physical combat.  There really aren’t many clubs to join like a traditional University. A little variation is increased a little with nobles maintaining a separate social status inside the school, at least unofficially. Overall, this squeezes the normally diverse set of fantasy combat classes into 4.  There isn’t much room for specialization either, at least at the Freshman level.

Despite the characters being a little wooden, they are fun to read about.  The story focuses character development heavily main cast of 3 characters with another 5 or 6 as secondary characters getting their moments.

The real draw of this story is how the various plot developments interact with each other and the characters.  What should be a stereotypical ball has students competing for grades in decorum, while thieves play games under everyone’s nose, even as they dance.  Some of the main character’s poor decisions come back to haunt her all throughout the novel, including at the dance.

One of the best parts about this novel is that the writers put a lot of effort to make it fun to read online.  It uses a pleasing font and font size, preventing wall of text problems.  Characters and many pages have well drawn art for them.  The story itself has plenty of incentive to keep reading, even without explicit cliffhangers like most magazine serials use.

Overall, this is a very enjoyable read.  It has some problems but they don’t make it any less enjoyable to read.

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