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Great and Terrible Beauty | 
 enlarge | Author: Libba Bray
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER CHI
Category: Book
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Rating:  308 reviews
Sales Rank: 707114
Format: Import
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0689875355
EAN: 9780689875359
ASIN: 0689875355
Publication Date: May 2, 2006
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 Don't give up until you read Book #2- Rebel Angels December 1, 2008
Liz Boone
I didn't immediately fall in love with this book. The problem is that Book #1 mainly sets up the whole story but real action is not taken until book #2, Rebel Angels. Just hold on, the last 2 books are wonderful!
 It Won Me Over November 28, 2008
Shelly (Delaware, USA)
If you are a fan of fantasy, adventure, magic, romance and mystery this is the book and the trilogy for you. Gemma Doyle won my heart over very quickly and I fell easily into her world. The characters in this book are entertaining and multi-faceted. I have always been a sci-fi/ fantasy fan, but I have also always been a fan of historical romance books such as Jane Austen novels. The Gemma Doyle trilogy is the perfect blend of both genre's. Once I got into the story I couldn't put this book down. In fact I was launched into a general book addiction because I enjoyed reading this trilogy so very much.
Extreme Page Turner November 23, 2008
MKB (Wisconsin, USA)
`A Great and Terrible Beauty' is one of those books you cannot put down, to the point where you are eating lunch with one hand and turning pages with the other and your friends are waving their hands in front of your face and trying to take the book away, much to your annoyance.
Set in the Victorian era, sixteen year old Gemma Doyle sees her mother murder herself to escape a soul-eating tracker in a vision. She soon is whisked away to Spence Academy for Young Ladies, a boarding school specializing in molding young ladies for their future husbands, whether the girls want to be molded or not. Gemma makes friends(?) with Felicity, Pippa, and Ann. And then there's Kartik, a mysterious Indian boy and a member of the mysterious and infamous Rakshana, following Gemma and warning her to close her mind to her visions, and threatening her father's already declining health if she fails to do so.
This book has varying layers of illusion, from the somewhat figurative illusions of London's society, people lying and spinning illusions to protect their ever important reputations, people hiding behind masks to conceal their true ambitions, desires, hopes, dreams(because having a personality would be oh so scandalous), to the more literal illusions of the realms. `Circe will make you see a monster when there is only a kitten and vice versa'--`A Great and Terrible Beauty'.
The characters in this book feel very real, with a perfect balance of faults and virtues, keeping them from seeming too much a villain or too much hero, which leaves you questioning which side is really the `right' side, the `good' side.
One of my favorites, I recommend this book highly to anyone who enjoys fantasy or the like.
 A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY November 17, 2008
Judy (eldorado,kansas)
I THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD BOOK BUT NOT GREAT, I AM A AVID READER SO I HAVE READ A FEW, AND IT WAS JUST OKAY.
a great read. November 3, 2008
rizz
i really really liked this book.
the premise isn't something i would normally read, but i'm glad i did. the main character, gemma doyle, is really awesome. she is witty, and strong, but she also has tremendous flaws.
kartik. i love him, he's so mysterious. he is isn't in the majority of the scenes, and when he is, they are very short, but i really can't wait to see what happens with him and his relationship with gemma in the next book of the trilogy.
i felt like i could never really trust felicity at all while reading this book and i don't know if i really liked the friendship between gemma and the other three main characters. it seemed as if they only liked her because of her magical abilities. because the minute she told them she wouldn't bring them into the realms they turned on her. i suppose i'll have to see how their friendship plays out in the next book!
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