A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle Trilogy, #1)

by Libba Bray

It's 1895, and after the death of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's being followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls - and their foray into the spiritual world - lead to?

• ISBN10: 0689875347
• ISBN13: 9780689875342
• Publish Date: 4 July 2005 (first published 1 January 2003)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 24 October 2008
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Imprint: Simon & Schuster Children's
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 416
• Language: English

Reviews

[Eve1972]

I use to be a bit of a snob about young adult books, well not really a snob, I just figured I was to old to be reading "those" types of books and would pass them by. Then I read Twilight and suddenly the genre didn't seem all that bad. Since then some of my favorite reads would be classified as young adult and this one definitely falls into that category! This novel had all the elements I love in a good book, set in and earlier time, involves the occult and with a little bit of raciness that I rather enjoy! This is book #1 of a three book collection and I can't wait to read the next two.