A+Great+and+Terrible+Beauty+by+Libba+Bray

403 pages Summary: Gemma Doyle lives in India with her mother and father. When her mother dies her father is devastated, and she is sent to Spence Academy in London, a finishing school for girls. There she has a rough beginning with the head girls at the school. During her first night at the school, she is warned to close her mind from the visions she has been getting. When she and her friends start reading from the diary of a girl who was part of the Order, an ancient group of woman that entered the Realms, she starts entering the Realms herself and talking to the spirit of her dead mother. Her mother warns her of the danger of the Realms but Gemma doesn't listen and gets sucked into more danger.

Comments: I really liked this book. At the beginning of the story it was a little slow but it was never boring. ~missbettyboop155