Same Old Thing

I found it hard to enjoy Avalon High because of its relation to EVERY OTHER HIGH SCHOOL MOVIE. They all have the same stereotypes: nerds getting bullied by jocks, the cheerleaders as the popular girls, so on and so forth. Although this book did have a lot of cliche moments involving the social circles of high school, I did enjoy the twist of almost all of the characters representing someone from the King Arthur timeline. I loved how Will had a lot of the same characteristics and values as King Arthur, how Lance sort of represented Lancelot, how Morton was Merlin, and especially how Ellie was given qualities of both Elaine of Castolat and the Lady of Shallot but ended up being neither. All in all cool idea but all high school movies are kind of the same in the end. This book kind of had "Sky High" vibes.