For Your Own Good by Samantha Downing: review.

Set in an elite school where the rich and privileged attend, For Your Own Good will keep you up at night because it's simply undownputable.

At Belmont School, there are entitled teachers and entitled pupils and all of them think they do things for the good of others. Bribing, threatening, cheating, lying, and even killing are on the menu of the canteen.

Samantha Downing has developed the characters extremely well. We get to know them, understand their motives, feel sorry for them, and sometimes we don't want them to get caught, we sincerely want them to get their way with murder, and other times we hate them because what they do is despicable, to say the least.

This novel will make you wonder what your teachers are thinking and if you are a teacher, you may think twice before marking the paper of one of your least favourite pupils. It's fun and entertaining and it also gives you food for thought:
-Are teachers truly unbiased when they mark a paper or does the fact that they dislike/like a pupil play an important role in their final decision?
- Do pupils think that what teachers do is for the pupil's own good?
- Has social media made things easier or harder for both pupils and teachers?

All in all, I strongly recommend this novel to Teacher's of the Year, burnout teachers, A-grade students, and school dropouts. There's something in it for everybody.