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Title
The
Sweet Far Thing
Author
Libba
Bray
Age Range
Teenagers
/ Teens
Brief Description
IT HAS
BEEN A YEAR OF CHANGE since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence
Academy. Her mother murdered, her father a
laudanum addict, Gemma has relied on an unsuspected strength and has
discovered an ability to travel to an enchanted world called the realms,
where dark magic runs wild. Despite certain peril, Gemma has bound the
magic to herself and forged unlikely new alliances. Now, as Gemma
approaches her London debut, the time has come to test these bonds.
The Order - the mysterious group her mother was once part of - is
grappling for control of the realms, as is the Rakshana. Spence's burned
East Wing is being rebuilt, but why now? Gemma and her friends see Pippa,
but she is not the same. And their friendship faces its gravest trial as
Gemma must decide once and for all what role she is meant for.
