Journal Entry 1 by karendawn from Lafayette, Indiana USA on Friday, April 29, 2005

From the back cover:
Gemma Doyle isn't like other girls. Girls with impeccable manners, who speak when spoken to, who remember their station, 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 a chilly reception. But she's not completely alone...she's been followed by a mysterious young man, who warns 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 group called the Order. It's there that her destiny waits...if only she 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, when girls were groomed for lives as rich men's wives...and the story of a girl who saw another way. 

Journal Entry 2 by karendawn from Lafayette, Indiana USA on Monday, May 02, 2005

This was an excellent book! (And I'm very excited that a sequel is to come out later this year.) The characters were well-developed, and it was suspenseful and eerie. 

Journal Entry 3 by karendawn at on Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Released 6 yrs ago (5/9/2005 UTC) at

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I sent this to explorer1118m sometime before I left Indiana, so right around May 9. 

Journal Entry 4 by explorer1118m from Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey USA on Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Hehe....Can't wait to sick my teeth into this book. I plan to start reading it first chance i get tomorrow. Karendawn, thanks so much! 

Journal Entry 5 by explorer1118m from Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey USA on Saturday, December 02, 2006

Sending to a fellow PaperBackSwap member