A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

Post date: Dec 3, 2010 7:22:02 PM

Gemma is sent away to a London boarding school in 1895 to be properly trained as a lady. She knows she does not fit in, and she does not want to play the game in order to be liked by the elite society girls at the school. Everything change though when she finds the diary of a previous student. The diary mentions mystical powers, and alternative reality, and a group called "The Order".

She finds herself drawn into this supernatural world and uncovers her mother's secrets and about a devastating accident that occurred at the school in 1871. Is what is written the diary for real or just the imagination of a school girl?