The Black Circle

The Black Circle is Book 5 in the 39 Clues series. As with many of the posts out there on Maggie's reading blog, this book is in a series. This series is one of those series that you can't read out of order or you will be seriously confused and quit one of the best book series at the time, just because you read Book cinqo first instead of Book uno. Have I made that clear?


The book, along with the series is exceptionally good, or in other words: absolutely fantastic. It's sort of like National Treasure. National Treasure is a movie that is all about U.S. history, except The 39 Clues is more on world culture and history as opposed to American history. And in The 39 Clues there are about 10 people trying to kill them, as in National Treasure there are only about 2 or 3 people.

I think Irina Spasky is very similar to Irina Spalko from Indiana Jones: The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Well, they Are both Russian, they are both KGB agents, and their names are very similar.

The book is hard to put down because it's so good. Something exciting happens every second, whether it's research or Amy and Dan Cahill about to be killed! Dan has a very good memory which helps out. Amy is good at figuring out puzzles. I recommend you read The 39 Clues