Young Llama Thoughts
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Adventurous
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Christian Friendly
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Easy Reading
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Humerous
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Youth Appropriate
Overall
Review
To Best the Boys is a adventure that will keep you on your toes! Filled with monsters, disease and mystery, this is a great book for girls 14 and up!
This book is about Rhen Tellur, a young women struggling to find a cure for the disease that is killing off her town. With the rich folk blaming it on the poor, she’s trying to find a cure by testing on the dead bodies in the morgue. But then another option could save them. If Rhen enters in the deadly labyrinth and wins, she could be the 1st girl to earn a scholarship to a school that would help her solve the cure. But will she survive the maze…
This book was SUPER interesting! I originally thought it was historical fiction, but it actually has some magical elements to it. The mystery in the book was wonderful! So many different plot twists kept me reading way into the night. The characters were fun, the story engaging. Honestly, it was fantastic.
Now there is violence in the book. Mention of disease, blood, death. Experiments on rats and dead bodies are mentioned. There are monsters in the book. Mentions of Ghouls that are looking for souls, (the books has a legend that they rip open your chest but it doesn’t actually happen) there are also sirens that are half-drowned women who scream and kill people. Plus there is poison, death and such. Kind-of gross, but not too gory.
Overall, this is an adventure that will keep you engaged the whole story! I enjoyed it, but was also kind-of on the edge of my seat. Totally suggest! (Also I got an ARC copy of the book, so mine may differ from yours) -The Young Llama Reader.
Pros
- A great magical adventure!
- Amazing for young ladies 14 and up!!!
Cons
- Violence, blood and dark topics…
Every year for the past fifty-four years, the residents of Pinsbury Port have received a mysterious letter inviting all eligible-aged boys to compete for an esteemed scholarship to the all-male Stemwick University. The poorer residents look to see if their names are on the list. The wealthier look to see how likely their sons are to survive. And Rhen Tellur opens it to see if she can derive which substances the ink and parchment are created from, using her father’s microscope.
In the province of Caldon, where women train in wifely duties and men pursue collegiate education, sixteen-year-old Rhen Tellur wants nothing more than to become a scientist. As the poor of her seaside town fall prey to a deadly disease, she and her father work desperately to find a cure. But when her mum succumbs to it as well? Rhen decides to take the future into her own hands—through the annual all-male scholarship competition.
With her cousin, Seleni, by her side, the girls don disguises and enter Mr. Holm’s labyrinth, to best the boys and claim the scholarship prize. Except not everyone is ready for a girl who doesn’t know her place. And not everyone survives the deadly maze.
Welcome to the labyrinth.
