A Great and Terrible Beauty starts off with an English girl in India, Gemma Doyle fighting with her mother about going to England, her mother however, wants her to be happy in India, saying the English way of life was not for her. A strange man in a cloak bumps into the duo and her life suddenly changes forever. Her mother is killed, she starts seeing visions. Her grandmother sends her to England, but she can't leave India behind. The Rakshana follow her, the cloaked man was among the ranks and with these visions she finds out that she has magic powers that enable her to enter a different world. She's sent to an all girls boarding school, where you can imagine she already has her share of difficulties even fitting in or finding friends, but to deal with constant visions, the ethereal, a potential love interest, guilt from knowing of her mother's mysterious death and the balance of the worlds on her shoulders? It's too much.
My summaries are pretty crappy, but Anissa has the books if you want them! Haha
A Great and Terrible Beauty
Rebel Angels
The Far Sweet Thing
All are by Libba Bray.
I guess if your a cheesy romantic and stuff, the books are good. I honestly lugged around huge hardcover copies and read them in every class until I finished, that's how much I liked them! Haha
2 comments:
I like the way the book is sounding from your summary. Haha. I might just go out and pick them up. Hypothetically speaking, if I was the girl I'd be freaked out. Extremely freaked out to say the least. I'm glad you like them so much. Kinda reminds me of the Twilight series because of the whole lugging around big books thing. I did that :)
wow i like the way this book sounds. i remember my freshman year one of myfriends always raved about it (kindof like how some people absess with twilight :) and i always meant to read it i think i just forgot.
thank you for reminding me. i really want to read it now.
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