A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

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While this novel will probably not go down in the annals of history as one of the greatest works of the English language, it is at least a terribly interesting potboiler of a chick-lit suspense novel.

Set at a rich girls' boarding school in turn-of-the-century England (mostly), the storyline is rife with the unbearable cruelty of young women fighting for their place in the world at a time when being with the "in crowd" was almost a survival instinct, due to the impact it could have on a young woman's life. But the girls all have their secrets, and the protagonist's one is a doozy. She is a link between this world and "the realms" where the line between the living and the dead, the tangible and the dream are blurred. And, naturally, there's a super dangerous villain spirit, more secrets getting uncovered, human sacrifice and a fire. Oh, and lots of complaining about corsets. Just sayin'.

I picked this book up at Target for like $8. Whoops, $6.71 to be precise (just looked).

So, exciting page-turner, low price. Now read it and tell me what you thought