To start, I've seen so many people complaining about the slow pacing of the novel. Please understand that it is a SCHOOL SETTING, you should be expecting relatively slow pacing. How many novels with school settings have fast pacing? Generally not very many. When you see that it's a school setting, this pacing is what you are signing up for.On another note, the novel has decent to good character development and world building due to the "filler" chapters (if you think that these chapters are filler then I'm sorry that your IQ is in the double digits). Whilst it isn't the best novel, its refreshing to see a novel that places emphasis on characters and its world rather than meaningless action. If anything, the action based chapters are the worst part of the novel as they do nothing to advance the story or develop the characters/world and are clearly the most filler-like parts of the novel.
