Helias Library/Media Center
November 2016
Student Book Reviewer!
Review by Eleanor Bax
The first book in the Engelfors trilogy, The Circle, is a beautiful mix of fantasy, romance, and horror. Using writing tools such as cliffhangers and foreshadowing, The Circle will keep you on the edge of your seat and unable to put the book down. The novel circulates around fantasy in the use of familiars, witches, and magic. If you enjoy the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, and the whole of Stephen King, this is the book for you. The Circle contains just enough hints of mature content to seem realistic, but not enough to make it rated above young adult.
(Trigger Warning: depression, suicide, somewhat detailed murder)
The Circle takes place in a small town in Sweden, in a secondary school that most of the characters attend. The novel centers, for the most part, around six teenage girls. Following the lives of Minoo, Rebecka, Ida, Vanessa, Linnéa, and Anna-Karin gets very hectic. You quickly learn that the narrator is very unreliable and changes perspective frequently. The six girls are the Chosen Ones and must stick together in order to develop their magic to defeat the oncoming evil. However, the girls cannot possibly be more different. Can they join forces in order to save lives, more specifically their own? Or will they be in constant discord as they are slowly killed off one by one?
**As a side note, if you are anything like me, I can guarantee that you will constantly be yelling at all the characters for varying reasons. Please do not spoil the book unintentionally for the potential readers around you. Thanks!**
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