SuitabookDifferent girls forming a circle
Six girls who are not friends are compelled to meet and are expected to share a mission against an ancient evil.
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Sara B. Elfgren - Author
Mats Strandberg - Author
This is a dark, ensemble-led supernatural novel combining school relationships and personal difficulties with witches, magical powers and an ancient threat. Its central appeal is likely the uneasy process of very different teenagers learning whether they can work together.
"On a night after the apparent suicide of high school student Elias Malmgren, a blood-red moon fills the night sky. Minoo wakes up outside her house, still in her pajamas, and is drawn by an invisible force to an abandoned theme park on the outskirts of town. Soon five of her classmates--Vanessa, Linnea, Anna-Karin, Rebecka and Ida--arrive, compelled the same force. A mystical being takes over Ida's body and tells them they are fated to fight an ancient evil that is hunting them. The park is a safe haven; the school, a place of danger. The six are wildly different and definitely not friends...but they are the Chosen Ones. As the weeks pass, each girl discovers she has a unique magical ability. They begin exploring their powers, but they are not all firmly committed to their mission--to discover the truth about Elias's death. Then a horrible tragedy strikes within the circle. Newly determined to fight the evil forces, they begin to learn magic from The Book of Patterns, an ancient work with a will of its own that reveals different things to different witches. In this gripping first installment of the Engelsfors Trilogy, a parallel world emerges in which teenage dreams, insanely annoying parents, bullying, revenge, and love collide with flirtation, dangerous forces, and ancient magic"--Jacket flap.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a dark, ensemble-led supernatural novel combining school relationships and personal difficulties with witches, magical powers and an ancient threat. Its central appeal is likely the uneasy process of very different teenagers learning whether they can work together.
Six girls who are not friends are compelled to meet and are expected to share a mission against an ancient evil.
The girls discover individual magical abilities and are told they must fight an ancient evil, while a magical book reveals different things to different witches.
Consider whether the opening’s treatment of Elias’s apparent suicide, later tragedy and the supernatural danger may feel intense. The book also includes bullying, eating-disorder history, self-image difficulties, grief, substance use and relationship concerns.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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The Circle - Sara Bergmark Elfgren, Mats Strandberg - Google Books
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Checked: 18 September 2026.
The Circle by Mats Strandberg and Sara Bergmark Elfgren (Engelsfors, #1)
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