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A Great and Terrible Beauty

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E Schawb

June 24, 2018      Leave a Comment

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

354 pages | Tor Books | Historical Fantasy | 4/21/15 | 11hrs and 34 Minutes

If there is a super popular hyped novel you can bet I will read it years after it comes out. I’m always fascinated by series that have huge fandoms and I’ve seen so much fanart and generally squeeing about this series that I don’t know what took me so long to get to it.

In A Darker Shade of Magic, there isn’t just one London, there are four–red, gray, black and white. At least that’s how Kell likes to think of it. He is an Antari, one of only two people with the ability to travel to the other Londons.

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Book Review : A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

January 15, 2012      8 Comments

 

“We’re all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them. .  . Hollow vessel of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions wants and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool tepid water of gracious compliance. . . a fissure forms in the vessel. I’m cracking open.”                                                                        

– Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

 

  A Great and Terrible Beauty is a witty, dark and funny novel that pulls readers into late 19th century England and the misadventures of Gemma Doyle.

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