Gemma Doyle Series --- Libba Bray (A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, The Sweet Far Thing)

Ratings:
A Great and Terrible Beauty (Book 1) 4 Stars
Rebel Angels (Book 2) 4.5 Stars
The Sweet Far Thing (Book 3) 5 Stars
Genre: Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Paranormal

Official Summary:
Gemma Doyle isn't like other girls. Girls with impeccable manners, who speak when spoken to, who remember their station, who dance with grace, and who will lie back and think of England when it's required of them.

No, sixteen-year-old Gemma is an island unto herself, sent to the Spence Academy in London after tragedy strikes her family in India. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma finds her reception a chilly one. She's not completely alone, though... she's been followed by a mysterious young man, sent to warn her to close her mind against the visions.

For it's at Spence that Gemma's power to attract the supernatural unfolds: there she becomes entangled with the school's most powerful girls and discovers her mother's connection to a shadowy, timeless group called the Order. It's there that her destiny waits... if only Gemma can believe in it.

A Great and Terrible Beauty is a curl-up-under-the-covers kind of book... a vast canvas of rustling skirts and dancing shadows and things that go bump in the night. It's a vividly drawn portrait of the Victorian age, a time of strict morality and barely repressed sensuality, when girls were groomed for lives as rich men's wives... and the story of a girl who saw another way.

Review:

This trilogy is about Gemma Doyle, her three friends, and their adventures together. The books follow the girls in their real lives as well as their excursions in to the magical realms to which Gemma holds the power.

These books get are wonderful... and get better as they go!
At first I was a little apprehensive about Gemma's supernatural powers and I thought it would get weird, but all in all, it was fine. The books can be dark at times, but not overly so. Basically the author Libba Bray pushed the boundaries with this trilogy and the results were fabulous!

The characters are so well written. You absolutely love each girl and their different personalities. There is also romance in these books :) and just the right amount.

These books are great! Adventure, mystery, romance, tension, suspense..... the list goes on.
Read these books! Let me know how you like them!
I would recommend the audience be 14+