Whispering Tower
Book 2 in the Beguiled series
Katie Clark
Pelican book group
May 2019
Young Adult Inspiration Time Travel
Fiction
$5.99 ebook
$10.99 Print
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About
the Book
Stuck in London for one of her mom's
work trips, Skye can't help holding a grudge when she ends up roped
into a summer tour group with Philip-who-crushed-her-heart. But when Skye and
Philip find themselves barreling through time after unsuspectingly opening the
veil between the past and present, they're thrust into a world where Skye's
very life is in danger.
If Skye had known her choices were
between summering with Philip or being sacrificed to the god of the skies, she
might have changed her attitude. Now she must figure out what's most important
to her—getting even for the past or having a future.
My
Review
Sweet young adult story, second in a
series, but a standalone. Time traveling teens Skye and Philip use Stonehenge
for an experiment and accidentally return to ancient Sumer in time for Skye to
be mistaken for the goddess Hebat to be sacrificed at the Tower of Babel.
Skye wears a boatload of angst on
her shoulders as her mother uses her as a "personal therapist."
That's not a fair relationship between a workaholic divorcee and her teen
daughter who's not crazy about being yanked from the last three weeks of school
and forced to make nice with her mom's business partner's son, Philip, a boy
who let her down and whom she now despises.
Things change when a tour around
ancient ceremonial sites takes a weird turn and the two are forced to rely on
each other for safety and a return, somehow, to their own time. Both Skye and
Philip get a fresh chance to know each other and understand their strengths and
weaknesses through the lens of wealth and slavery in a pagan culture on the
cusp of the worship of one God.
I quibble with the timeline, but it’s
not really important. Told through both perspectives of Skye and Philip,
Whispering Tower is an enjoyable and safe story for fourth graders who read
well and up.
About
the Author
Katie Clark's published works
include YA spec fic novels, multiple children's books, inspirational romance
novels, and more. You can learn more at her website,
www.katieclarkwrites.com. Find Katie on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter @KatieClarkBooks!
You can watch the book trailer for Katie Clark's Enslaved Series on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1q3Fg06I0A
And check out the book trailer for Shadowed Eden, the first book in Katie's upcoming Beguiled Series! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGl3i7ZhJLs
