This is an interesting story and a lot of the interesting is spoilerish, which makes it quite a difficult book to review, though one of my first guesses was incorrect the other was quite correct. Hilary is a reluctant student in his fourth school, he's not trying very hard to fit in to his new schoo...
Still too much white christian angst, totally illogical for a woman whose parents where killed by white christians but at least this one was way less so than the previous.