A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

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?

Reviewed by funstm on

2 of 5 stars

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Honestly I'm completely baffled by this book. I didn't really like it. It felt dry and boring. But I could not for the life of me put it down. Something compelled me to keep on reading and I'm fkd if I know what it was.

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