The below reviews are intended to be short, and easily read within 1 minute. All reviews are my own personal opinions, and I would love everyone to share their opinions as well. I read a lot of Fantasy Books (with the occasional historical fiction and thrilled thrown in), therefore my reviews are generally based on 3 things:
World Building - Is the world of the book worth spending time in?
Characters - Am I able to connect with the characters, or find them interesting?
Plot - Is the plot engaging and does it leave me wanting more?
A Great and Terrible Beauty
A Great and Terrible Beauty, by Libba Bray, is the story of Gemma Doyle, a young girl growing up in Victorian era England. Most of the book takes place at Spence Academy, a boarding school that Gemma is sent to in order to learn manners, and all other types of things in order to do what young ladies in her generation were expected to do… become the perfect wife.