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A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

5 reviews

itsreirei's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book feels like The Craft set in the Victorian era. I see why some may dislike it but I personally quite enjoyed reading it. Curious to see where the story goes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Moderate: Sexism, Classism, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, Death of parent, Xenophobia, Violence, Toxic friendship, Self harm, Misogyny, Child death, Addiction, and Bullying

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Abandonment, Medical content, and Drug abuse

bekahzabel's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

4.5/5 🌟 I read this series in middle school and circled back to it in effort to re-explore some favorites as an adult. I’m so happy I started with this one, it felt like slipping back into a cozy familiar dark bedtime story. Libba Bray’s writing style is suitable for both YA and adults in this series. 

I noticed so much more allusion, foreshadowing, and hidden gems this second time around.

If you like:
Coming of Age Witches
Discovering & Developing Power
Found Family
Sisterhood
Dark Academia
Secrets & Plot Twists 

then this trilogy will hit the spot for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Misogyny, Drug use, Death, Grief, Murder, and Self harm

kshertz's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

This was an interesting mix of being a woman in the 1900s and futuristic magic. I felt like it was a slow start because it took a while to get to the magic! But once they find the diary and get some magic, it gets good. There’s a lot of themes of women finding freedom within their minds when society beats them down and hollows them out. I enjoyed it but not enough to continue it as a series. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Child death, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Misogyny

celery's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Violence, Addiction, Chronic illness, Racism, Self harm, Vomit, Fatphobia, Murder, Sexism, Stalking, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Body shaming, Classism, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Animal death, Ableism, Alcohol, Grief, and Misogyny

ravensandlace's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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This is a pre goodreads/storygraph era book. I read this book when I was in high school. Back then, I devoured books like it was my job. I was in my school library just about every other day to get books. I think the librarian had to order more books just so I had something to read. Oh, those were the days. Now I’m lucky if I can finish a book in a week. Anyway, I remember this book being so cool and the concept of travelling to a different world where you could have everything you ever wanted was the epitome of awesome. So I thought I would reread this book and see if I still loved it. It had such fond feelings for me.

Spoiler alert: I did not love the book like I did when I was in high school. I think as I have gotten older, my taste in books have changed. One of my biggest problems was Gemma, the MC. My god, she was a giant brat. While I understand that this book takes place in the late 1800s and times were different, Gemma could still be a bit more nicer. She was just a brat. She treated her family like crap. She treated her friends like crap. She was selfish and did things only for herself. Felicity and Pippa were honestly no better. They were mean to each other and to others. They acted like they were better than everyone. It really put me off from enjoying the book at all. Anne was the only decent character but she was so two dimensional. She was bullied by everyone and nobody did anything about it. 

The whole book just seemed to be about how Gemma is mourning her mom and being a brat. The cool magic concept was overshadowed by Gemma and her poor decisions. I understand that she was in shock losing her mom in such a tragic way but there were ways to grieve and not constantly put yourself at risk. I am really unsure if I’m going to continue with the trilogy because I can’t remember if Gemma gets any better. Shame because this had the promise to be really good. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Blood, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Islamophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Xenophobia