She

H. Rider Haggard

Adventure

2

Ludwig Horace Holly

Holly is not very handsome, very learned, and very strong.  He has an adopted son named Leo, and is a graduate of Cambridge University.

Holly does right when he stays by Leo and goes off with him, to keep him safe.

Leo Vincey

Leo is tall, smart, extremely handsome, despite his adopted father.  He is strong, and has a very strong desire for adventure.

Ayesha or She

Ayesha is extremely beautiful, yet terrifying.  She believes that Leo is the reincarnation of her late beloved that she killed because he was in love with another.  She is also over two thousand years old, but still very beautiful and youthful.

All of the characters start off in England except for Ayesha, and they travel to somewhere in South America.

The Author does a very good job in describing the setting in South America, with the jungles and marshes.

I don't know what the author is trying to say in the book, I think it may be something like beauty is deceptive and charm is vain, or something like that.

This is a story of love, adventure, and friendship.

Not much, it was just a good read.

Ayesha was in love with Leo, and Ustane, a native girl who was in love with Leo, refused to leave.  Because in her tradition, if she kissed a man, and he kissed her back they would be married until they decided they didn't want to be married anymore.  Ayesha solved this problem by killing Ustane.  I know not the greatest, but it was the first that popped into my mind when I read the question.

1. Leo's father, Professor Vincey, was dying and he entrusted Holly with a box, and his little five-year-old son.  So when Leo opened the box he found that he was the descendant of Killkrates and he set off to see if the legend was true.
2. They arrived at their destination and were taking by natives who said 'the-one-who-must-be-obeyed' said that they were to be brought to her palace in three days.
3. Leo contracted a fever and was on the verge of dying when Ayesha, seeing that it was her beloved that she had been waiting for, for two thousand years, revived him with her secret medicine. 
4. Ayesha killed Ustane to put any doubt in Leo's mind to rest about who he loved then they set off to England.
5. But on the way, Ayesha showed them the secret of everlasting life.  A pillar of fire that you had to bathe your body in.  But since she had already been in it and she went in again, the magic was reversed and she turned old and died in a matter of minutes.
6. Leo and Holly escaped with their lives and returned to England where they lived the rest of their lives in peace, but never forgetting Ayesha.

I though it was very well written, depicted, and set.  I like all of the characters personalities, and the author does an overall good job with the characters surroundings.

I really liked how Holly was so strong, yet so ugly, but he dismissed the fact that he was ugly and was able to overcome obstacles.

I didn't like in the beginning when the author had like all these different translations of the letter, and he used different languages a lot.

At some parts it was confusing, like when he started using different languages.  But it wasn't very hard to believe because I have read many books harder to believe than that one.

Was the story predictable. . .?  Not really.

Ayesha died, Job died, and Holly and Leo went back to live in England.

Ky