Title: A Great and Terrible Beauty
Author: Libba Bray
Publisher: RandomHouse
Age Recommendation: 8th Grade and Up
Star Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
Plot: Raised in Bombay, India by her stricktly English mother, Gemma Doyle is independent for a young women who will one day enter the London society. When her mother, who forbids Gemma to leave for London instantly, is murdered brutally in the Bombay marketplace, Gemma must leave Bombay in which she calls home and set out to adopt her role as a wealthy English girl at the infamous Spence Academy. When her life finally seems to begin setting off on the proper foot, Gemma finds herself seeing visions of things that could only be described supernaturally. With her newest Spence friends and her unlikely ally, Kartik, a handsome Indian boy who seems to be following her across the world, Gemma must learn what her visions mean and how to control the outcome of things with her newfound ability.
Critique:
I'd always found reviews on posted by Libba Bray (the author) on the covers of my favorite novels. I was drawn to her writing by her simple and witty "one-sentance" reviews and I began to search the internet for her novels. Her most recent debut, Going Bovine, rather scared me away by the strange cow on the cover; but, considering my obsession with the Victorian Era, I decided to give this one a go. And I absolutely don't regret it. Though the magical view of this novel was sort of awkward for me, I found the romance, poetic components, stong charectars, and everything else fantastic and worth-while.
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