kaguya logoKaguya
  • Home
  • My Library
  • Browse
  • Lists
  • Members
  • Discussions
Log inSign up
kaguya logoKaguya
Sign up
Home
Browse
Library
Notifications
Notifications
Profile
About
  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • Guidelines
  • Help & Support
Contribute
  • Add Book
  • Add Covers
  • Librarian Guide
Apps
AndroidiOS

© 2025 Kaguya

A Great and Terrible Beauty
Rate book
Gemma Doyle #1

A Great and Terrible Beauty

Libba Bray
•
••

In this debut gothic novel mysterious visions, dark family secrets and a long-lost diary thrust Gemma and her classmates back into the horrors that followed her from India. (Ages 12+)

It's 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls—and their foray into the spiritual world—lead to?

FantasyYoung AdultHistoricalMagicParanormalMysteryVictorianUrban FantasyWitchesDemonsDark RomanceSuspenseSteampunkTake Charge HeroineHigh SchoolHorrorSlow BurnRomanceGothicDark AcademiaAdventureComing-of-age
A Great and Terrible Beauty
A Great and Terrible Beauty
Gemma Doyle #1

A Great and Terrible Beauty

Libba Bray
3.7
8 ratings
Published year: 2003
Pages: 403

In this debut gothic novel mysterious visions, dark family secrets and a long-lost diary thrust Gemma and her classmates back into the horrors that followed her from India. (Ages 12+)

It's 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls—and their foray into the spiritual world—lead to?

FantasyYoung AdultHistoricalMagicParanormalMysteryVictorianUrban FantasyWitchesDemonsDark RomanceSuspenseSteampunkTake Charge HeroineHigh SchoolHorrorSlow BurnRomanceGothicDark AcademiaAdventureComing-of-age

Reviews (0)

0 reviews

Ratings

3.7(8)

1
5

Ratings

3.7(8)

1
5

Reviews (0)

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Latest discussions

No discussions yet.