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This novel by Libba Bray is geared towards young girls; Gemma is not your average girl, she has lived her whole life in India with her British parents and has dreamed of going to London to school. On her birthday she ends up fighting with her mother and running off, only to experience a piercing vision of her mother’s murder. Her father has a breakdown after her mother’s death and Gemma is haunted by the visions. She is shipped off to Spence Boarding School for Young Ladies and is promptly outcast as “the new girl”. While Gemma struggles to make friends at Spence, she also struggles to understand her cryptic visions much to the dismay of a Gypsy messenger threatening her to close her mind to the visions… or else.

This was a neat concept for a novel — of interest to young girls into magic and different worlds. I gave this book to my cousin on recommendation so I’m glad I’ve finally got a chance to read it. I stormed right through it and would definitely recommend it for an older girl — maybe 10 – 14 years old. Sometimes I was a bit shocked about the subject matter, but young girls (even those at a boarding school for young ladies in the Victorian Era) were not naive about sexuality. My only complaint is how the idea of magic switching from being “visions” to “visiting other rhelms” was not explained.

It is interesting how there is also an “interview” in the back of the book with Libba Bray, as well as a Study Guide with questions and ideas to discuss.

I’m late for Booking Through Thursday, but I think that being on holiday is a great excuse.

Q: I’ve always wondered what other people do when they come across a word/phrase that they’ve never heard before. I mean, do they jot it down on paper so they can look it up later, or do they stop reading to look it up on the dictionary/google it or do they just continue reading and forget about the word?

I really really really mean to look up the words I don’t know. I want want want to find out their meaning and all that jazz, but honestly I’m usually reading in bed (or on the plane these days) and I just don’t have the energy / resources to go look up the word. On the other hand, I dislike interrupting the reading… when we used to study books in class we’d do the reading first (group or before coming to class to discuss) and then we’d get the info about what we just read. Also, in English with Nick, he used to give us the vocab list before we started the next chapters, which I really liked. I think I’m going to keep a notebook beside my bed and write down the page and the word and look it up later.