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Spring 2005 Review:

Book Cover The Beguilers

Kate Thompson

Penguin Group

© 2001

    The Beguilers was an enthralling book that I truly enjoyed reading. It had a thrilling, twisting plot that created suspense and an element of mystery that brings the reader right into the story.

          The book tells the story of Rilka, a young woman living in a village which demanded conformity. Rilka is disgusted at following the group. She is curious about the strange firefly-like lights, the beguilers, which drift through the village at night, haunting, tempting people to follow them and leading them to their deaths. She decides to declare her Great Intention to catch a beguiler, which had never been actually done before but one or two in each generation tried to, and this decision instantly casts her out of the village, deeming her insane. She pursues a lonely, terrifying and amazing adventure which might change her town’s and her own life forever- or might end it.

          I recommend this book for people seventh grade and older. Challenging, mysterious messages lie hidden in it which might be hard for younger children to pick up on to get the full effect of the book. Its vivid descriptions and ominous hints captured me and completely grasped me in the riveting story so that it was hard to put the book down. I really liked this book and would recommend it to anyone looking for an exciting, fun and just overall excellent story.

 

~Ellyanna Kessler, grade 8, Boardman Center Middle School

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