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Book Review of A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, Bk 1)

A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, Bk 1)
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Helpful Score: 2


I've been on a young adult fiction kick lately so I was more than happy to pick this book up after reading glowing recommendations for it. The short of it is...this book is young adult not just for marketing purposes. The story is very juvenile...teens should love it as it has a bit of sex/lesbian undertones, catty and petty fighting, and all the high school drama a Victorian Boarding school can muster, but for an adult...ehhh. I was very disappointed. Won't be moving on to the other books.