It's one of a number of her boarding school novels, and as negative on the experience as the others I've seen. "Witch Week" is the fourth Chestomanci novel, though the connection is delayed for the bulk of the book. Recommended as an entertaining colorful story. Fortunately other threads in the story line keep things moving in enough of an unpredictable way to make for a fun story. The warring families aspect of the story is annoying because it's so obvious where things will go. The primary protagonists are several young members of the Montana family, forced by circumstance to work with members of the hated Petrocchi family. The context is a Romeo and Juliet families at war situation, but the driving plot is the gradual loss of magic, due to an unknown magician working in league with the enemy city states. The multi-universe aspect of the series is used just to set up an alternate Italy where city states continue to war with each other, in this case, the underdog is the small city state of Caprona. "The Magicians of Caprona": third in the Chestomanci series, like the first, focuses on other main characters, with Chrestomanci mostly a walk-on deus ex machina.
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