I’d rate A Great and Terrible Beauty 4 of 5 stars. The year is 1895 and our story follows Gemma Doyle, a young woman from a wealthy English family who has spent her entire life thus far growing up in India. The story is exciting and interesting. Overall, it was a decent read with some really cool ideas. A Great and Terrible Beauty is the first in her Gemma Doyle series and what a beginning it is. She’s lyrical and descriptive, and everything flowed really well from a language perspective. I loved the world of the Realms that Libba Bray created – that was very cool, and I was particularly intrigued by Gemma’s relationship with her mother. I think it’s an important message that young girls/boys need to understand in any time. That said, my favorite thing about this group of girls was Libba Bray’s message that they were all flawed, i.e., no one is perfect. At times I felt myself thinking how petulant she was which probably didn’t help with the connection aspect, although I did like the other girls, particularly Felicity and Pippa. I found that Gemma as a character held me on and off, and I’m not sure that was due to Libba Bray’s apt portrayal of a teenager (one minute you like them, the next you want to lock them in a box). She finds the diary of Mary Dowd, and with the help of three unlikely friends, sets out on a journey to discover Mary’s terrible secret, and the power that she herself holds. Plagued with visions of a mysterious beast stalking her, Gemma discovers that she holds the key to reopening the Realms and bringing back magic into this world, albeit with a price. The beginning was exciting and different, starting out with a bang, and I was pulled into Gemma Doyle’s life as she leaves India following the murder of her mother to attend an elite boarding school in London. The novel is set in the Victorian age which is the first thing that separates it from current YA books. Overall A Great and Terrible Beauty was good and I read it during a flight to Miami, so a solid three hours. He lives a life in hiding, conducting guerrilla warfare, outsmarting the authorities, a figure of mystery and intrigue. Urn:oclc:436214506 Scandate 20100219152742 Scanner scribe9.la.archive.Books, fantasy Book Review: A Great and Terrible Beauty OConnor 4.03 175 ratings39 reviews It is 1920 and, as the War of Independence rages throughout Ireland, Michael Collins is the most wanted man in the British Empire. OL519373W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.43 Pages 440 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0385901615 Urn:lcp:greatterriblebea00bray:epub:fa4e1884-7de5-4fa6-b897-e46e7f46e313 Extramarc University of Pennsylvania Franklin Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier greatterriblebea00bray Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6f19m28f Isbn 0385732317ĩ780385732314 Lccn 2003009472 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:21:00 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA105015 Boxid_2 CH101001 Camera Canon 5D City New York Containerid_2 X0001 DonorĪlibris Edition 2003 Softcover Edition.
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