Only one human character, the beautifully and sparingly drawn Capt. His slow development into a genuinely kind person is entirely satisfying, as is his awakening to his own bisexuality and to the colonialism, sexism, and racism of Borderlands society. But over the course of four years training among child soldiers, Elliot, unsurprisingly, grows up. Elliot’s initial interest in Serene is despicable he aims to fake friendship until she grows to love him. With Luke Sunborn, a flaxen-haired, blue-eyed, white golden boy, Elliot tutors Serene, an ethereally beautiful elf with “pearl-pale” skin, who’s determined to excel twice as much as any other student. He doesn’t form a circle of friends so much as an alliance of distrustful mutual advantage. When the 13-year-old crosses into the Borderlands and sees he’s more intelligent than most of the other kids-and adults-he’s quick to say so.
Ginger-haired, white Elliot, an undersized nonpracticing Jew, is a total brat. If Elliot’s story seems familiar, the impression fades quickly. Four years in the life of an unloved English schoolboy who’s invited to a secret magical school and learns that even in fantasyland, real life is messier than books.
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