1-16-09 A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray - Fiction

3 - It's a Gothic novel for teens. I'm personally not a big fan of Gothic novels, so it was just OK. The story itself is good and interesting: a young girl discovers she has magic in her blood and is now being sought by both good and evil. She shares her secret and magic with her friends and they learn of two girls years before who also had magic. It's set in a finishing school in 1890's England (see, Gothic). The story is interesting enough that I'll continue the series, but not with my usual eagerness.