A Great and Terrible Beauty
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A Great and Terrible Beauty

by Libba Bray

2003•Teen•403 pages

Taste attributes: teenfantasyhistoricalmysteryfresh & originalimaginarylinearglossyemotive & stirringcoming of agesolving the riddle/not as it seemstroubled leads

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Boxlist takeExpect a heightened, emotional book, glossy rather than gritty. Best if you like stories that hit hard.

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4.0 / 5

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About This Book

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.

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Characteristics

Where this book sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast
FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal
DarkTONEWholesome
LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy
FantasyREALISMRealistic
SimpleINTRICACYIntricate
Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear
UnderstatedSTYLEStylised
IntimateSCALEEpic
RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

TeenFantasyHistoricalMysteryComing of ageSolving the riddle/not as it seemsTroubled leads

Subjects

Social life and customsYoung adult fictionMagicSupernaturalHistorical FictionBoarding schoolsSchoolsJuvenile fiction

Details

Author
Libba Bray
Published
2003
Pages
403
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