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Reader reviewed by Ash

A Great and Terrible Beauty wasn't one of those books that just went 'Gemma made friends and they found a scarey new realm, but they defeated it together and helped Gemma's mom, and lived happily ever after.' It went into depth. I felt the suspense, the magic in the book. I really liked how the author didn't make all the girls and Gemma's mother get along perfectly for most of the book. They had fights and disagreements throughout the whole book, just like real friends do. I thought it was good of the Celia Rees to let one of the characters die. It showed how dangerous and serious the realm was even without Circees .Overall this was a book worth reading and at points easy to relate to.