Friday, November 10, 2017

A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray

I knew nothing about this book when I picked it up, but the synopsis piqued my interest.  This is a fun book. A little heavy, a little not, good balance. I thought the author did a particularly good job of creating characters that were realistic, but likable.  The four main characters are 16-year-old girls, which are particularly disagreeable to most people, however, Bray, while keeping them 16-year-old girls, did a great job of exposing the cattiness but still gave plausible actions to keep the girls together.  She made the characters both sweet and vindictive in honest amounts. 
I would recommend this book to people who like occult, Victorian-era stuff, but not much beyond that. The story wasn't especially enchanting.