A Great and Terrible Beauty is exactly the kind of book I loved as a teenager: history, intrigue, and just a wee bit of the spiritual/paranormal world. Well, and a dashing love interest, the angst of making friends, GIRL POWER, and little life lessons nestled underneath it all. While teen Amanda wou...
I just couldn't get into it. When this happens with an audiobook I am always tempted to say "well maybe I just wasn't in the mood for an audiobook right now", but really, these girls annoyed me. I felt like I was listening to Mean Girls: The Victorian Edition. They're catty and shallow and Gemma ...
Gemma Doyle is an independent young woman raised in India, struggling with mysteriously prophetic visions and her adjustment to Victorian era England. She is warned to suppress her visions by a strange but handsome young man who followed her from India, but she persists until she is eventually able ...
Very slow with a rushed ending. The story doesn't really earn it's action packed ending. The characters become instruments of the plot too. There was a lot of running around in circles in this book too, which makes the rushed ending harder for me to take than I would have otherwise. I felt like info...
Boarding schools are always interesting. I really liked the idea of a boarding school ‘teaching’ the girls how to be proper ladies and wives. It’s fascinating because it’s so different from our culture today. It’s also incredibly sad because the girls weren’t expected to do much, just to behave well...
No big surprises: characters and goth-lite plot were a bit too rote for me. It was a little plodding, then gradually picked up, only to slow down again. I never felt like anyone was truly in danger. I did like Gemma's voice, she was a prickly, snarky thing - and certain parts were nicely done. I wi...
I had read the first two novels in Libba Bray's Gemma Doyle trilogy in the past, although I had done so with many years between the two reads, when the books had first been released. This is an intricately woven series and as such, unless the reader possesses a stellar memory (which I do not), shou...
I was expecting more... The description, cover and title were great. But I couldn't like Gemma and her friends. First of all, Gemma is a spoiled brat insensible girl. The choices she made... I was like "no girl, you wouldn't!". She witnessed the murder of her mother (they got separated before it hap...
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