The Gargoyle, Book #10, and Book #11
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lavendersparkI finished The Gargoyle on Friday. It was an odd book, the way it was written. It took some getting used to, having the author/main character speak directly to me. It was good though. It kept me reading and the characters were interesting.
Sunday I picked up It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma’s reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she’s been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence’s most powerful girls—and their foray into the spiritual world—lead to? and finished it Monday. I really enjoyed it. I kind of feel like it's a bit of Harry Potter meets Dead Poet Society. The main character finds out secrets about herself and her mother (and the world), then explores them by making a secret club at her finishing school.
Then I discovered that it's part of a trilogy. So I checked out book two from the library today and put a hold on book three (my branch doesn't have a copy, so I'm getting it from another branch).
So Book #11 will be It’s the end of the year, and Gemma’s looking forward to living it up in London. Balls, fancy gowns and dancing with the handsome Simon Middleton beckon. Best of all, it’s time away from Spence Academy—and from the Realms.
But the lure of the enchanted world is strong, and the magic flows freely. Gemma’s visions intensify—visions of three girls dressed in white, suffering horror and menace. Clearly, all is not well in the Realms—or out of them.
Set against the backdrop of Victorian London, a place of shadows and light, in a time of strict morality and barely repressed sensuality, this compelling gothic sequel reveals that inside great beauty can lie a rebel angel….
Sunday I picked up It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma’s reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she’s been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence’s most powerful girls—and their foray into the spiritual world—lead to? and finished it Monday. I really enjoyed it. I kind of feel like it's a bit of Harry Potter meets Dead Poet Society. The main character finds out secrets about herself and her mother (and the world), then explores them by making a secret club at her finishing school.
Then I discovered that it's part of a trilogy. So I checked out book two from the library today and put a hold on book three (my branch doesn't have a copy, so I'm getting it from another branch).
So Book #11 will be It’s the end of the year, and Gemma’s looking forward to living it up in London. Balls, fancy gowns and dancing with the handsome Simon Middleton beckon. Best of all, it’s time away from Spence Academy—and from the Realms.
But the lure of the enchanted world is strong, and the magic flows freely. Gemma’s visions intensify—visions of three girls dressed in white, suffering horror and menace. Clearly, all is not well in the Realms—or out of them.
Set against the backdrop of Victorian London, a place of shadows and light, in a time of strict morality and barely repressed sensuality, this compelling gothic sequel reveals that inside great beauty can lie a rebel angel….
