Book Review

Here is a review for the novel "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart.

This book centers around an orphan, Reynie Muldoon, who takes a number of special tests for gifted children. After just managing to pass three puzzling and extremely complicated tests, Reynie meets Kate Wetherall, and George "Sticky" Washington (two other children who passed.) Later on, they travel to a strange old house to meet Mr. Benedict, a very intelligent gentleman who send the children along with a fourth child, Constance Contraire, on a very dangerous mission. Strange and dangerous messages have been transmitted by children throughout the world, and Reynie and his friends must travel to the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened; the school where the dangerous messages seem to be coming from. They must pose as students to attempt to thwart the scheme of the evil genius in charge of the school, before the messages begin to overpower the world.

This story surprised me as it had a very interesting plot and the characters were very endearing. The whole message concept, however, was a bit confusing at times and some of the finer points of the story weren't exactly the clearest. Still, I personally enjoyed it and I had it read in three days cause I simply couldn't put it down at times! I'm giving this book 3 3/4 stars out of five.