A Great and Terrible Beauty (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy) by Libba Bray

This Gothic, Victorian novel is a suspenseful page turner. It is enthralling and impossible to put down! The characters are well scripted, the storyline is easy to devour and it is nothing like I expected. This beautiful novel will keep you interested far after you put it down and anxious to see what happens to these realistic characters. The mythical aspects are not incredibly silly which makes reading it enjoyable and doesn't induce eye rolling. 

Grade: A- 

(Synopsis)From the Publisher It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma’s reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she’s been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence’s most powerful girls—and their foray into the spiritual world—lead to?