The Circle Squared (Circulatim Book 2)
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (532 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00F8KLVVY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 113 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Neil in Morgan Hill said A sequel that takes Alex's experiences to a whole new level. A 5-Star rating for THE CIRCLE SQUARED by Ray Smith. Strongly recommended that you read the first book in this series before reading the sequel.Alex experiences his "Dark night of the soul" as his world changes around him. As most teen age boys, Alex deals with changes that are stressful and scary. His stress is compounded by rocky relationships, Toby's death and his own mortality. As Alex's body heals, his pessimistic obsessive thoughts are magnified by his intelligence and e. JNSNemo said A Sequel Worthy of the First. This book defies the trap of most second books (and don't get me started on movies) are good, but not as good as the first. For most second books the tension is gone, you know the characters, not much discovery left.Not with this book. You follow Alex as he grows, as he discovers things about himself and the ones he cares about that he never knew. This is not some doe-eyed lead where everything in his life goes perfectly. Neither is it one of those constant struggle books wher
Another month passes that changes Alex's life forever.Alex recuperates and returns to school, a school that knows that he is gay and that he had "almost" died.Alex's circle of friends seems to be shrinking, both at home and at school, and even his favorite teacher now treats him differently.His very best friend is acting strangely and keeping secrets from him for the first time. Yet in the end of the Yeats poem some mysterious new birth emerges from the chaos: 'And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?'So too for Alex. Related to this discovery is a new voice, a deeper, rougher voice, an adult voice, which at first he hates, but gradually discovers that he can use to sing the Styx tracks that have come to mean so much in his life. And Alex wasn't sure he could do what they expected him to do.Torn apart from the familiar support of the Circle, and moving in a strange new circle of friends, he is stunned to come face to face with a specter from his past from even before Toby.How much more could he handle?A reader's review:"As the story of Alex and his circle continues through the second book in the series, more themes begin to weave their way into it. A hobby that raises a ghost from the past only recently laid t