A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY, by libba bray Options

[PINAYSTER]

well i've read
A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY and i simply love the story!!
im planning to buy most of her works because i've heard that there are series

anyways A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY is about:

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?

“A delicious, elegant gothic.”
—Publishers Weekly

“An interesting combination of fantasy, light horror, and historical fiction, with a dash of romance thrown in for good measure.”
—School Library Journal
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OMG!!! when i researched it.. there's a movie about it coming out in 2008!!
here's the site:
http://www.thebookstandard.com/bookstandard/events/teen_book_video/GTB.jsp

[angelrevelation]

It creeped me out a bit... But it was interesting how it was both sort of a historical novel, but fantasy as well.

I really related to how Gemma was talking about how the Indian guy (forgot his name) was attracted to Pippa. She wasn't jealous of the fact that he liked her, but the fact that she would never have a beauty that captivated people, like Pippa did.

I still need to read the sequel!