Rebel Angels (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy Book #2)
by Libba Bray
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Author: Libba BrayEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-12-26
ISBN: 0385733410
Number of pages: 592
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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- ISBN13: 9780385733410
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Book Review: Totally lives up to it's predecessor-and held this adult's interest just fine thank you
Summary: 5 Stars
It's the season of goodwill and merry times in London Town and Gemma Doyle, on Christmas vacation from Spence Academy is both looking forward too and dreading the trip. Looking forward to it because there shall be balls and parties and all sorts of the kinds of the wonders she has dreamed her whole life of-and dreading it because her last encounter with the creatures of the dark Circe left Pippa, one of her circle of the three trusted friends who knew her dark secret (brave Felicity, clever Ann, beautiful Pippa and mysterious Gemma-the new order) behind in the realms, leaving her dead in the "real" world. And Ann, the scholarship student, left at Spence to be trained as a good governess for her horrible cousins, will be left behind as usual to have the holiday season with the servants.
Gemma also has no desire to spend weeks with her pompous doctor brother who thinks of nothing but getting a rich wife, her social climbing grandmother who is so restrictive she is hardly left a moment to her herself and her father who is sinking more and more into his opiate addiction in a desperate attempt to avoid the crushing grief of her mothers death.
Until the girls come up with a plan. Since Gemma smashed the Runes the Order captured the magic of the realms in so long ago in her battle with Circe, freeing her mother at last-the magic of the realms is running free-and much easier to bring to the other side. So the girls concoct an illusion-that Ann is long lost royalty and as such must come to London with them so they can continue their search for Circe.
But Gemma is having strange dreams of three girls is white on cliffs jumping about-trying to warn her of something-and the school has a new teacher to whom she feels a great mistrust. And of Kartik is never far away, telling Gemma that she must find the temple in the realms-an ancient source of power and there bind the magic. Both the Order and the Rakshana want the power all to themselves and at the same times creatures both wondrous and terrifying-and all too familiar and too good to be true- are introducing themselves and telling their own tales about the Order's long domination of the power in the realms and how they would like a share in it.
There are riddles to be solved, visions to unravels and people to be determined if they are trustworthy. And while London's winter season of balls whirls on and courtships begin these three girls may find themselves trapped in a fight for their lives-and the safety of the borders between these two worlds, with only the strangest of allies, and the most unusual illusions to help them.
Like it's predecessor this is a wonderful book that's just a page turner. It totally holds up to the promise of the first book-and still managed to capture my adult interest. Totally impossible to put down once you've started and once you've finished you'll be howling for the next one. This story is very well put together and filled with surprises and twists and turns that I never could have guessed (and normally I see plot changes coming but with book I always kind of on the hook about weather or not they were really headed in that direction) and made for a great ending. Surprisingly this book also dealt with some social issues (not the Victorian girl empowerment stuff from the first book) that I would have thought would never have been brought up in that age-making Gemma's reaction to the big revelation a little unrealistic. But other than that-no complaints.
Five stars
Summary of Rebel Angels (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy Book #2)
Gemma Doyle is looking forward to a holiday from Spence Academy?spending time with her friends in the city, attending balls in fancy gowns with plunging necklines, and dallying with the handsome Lord Denby. Yet amid these distractions, her visions intensify?visions of three girls dressed in white, to whom something horrific has happened that only the realms can explain.The lure is strong, and soon Gemma, Felicity, and Ann are turning flowers into butterflies in the enchanted world that Gemma takes them to. To the girls' great joy, their beloved Pippa is there as well, eager to complete their circle of friendship.
But all is not well in the realms?or out. Kartik is back, desperately insisting to Gemma that she must bind the magic, lest colossal disaster befall her. Gemma is willing to comply, for this would bring her face-to-face with her late mother's greatest friend, now Gemma's foe?Circe. Until Circe is destroyed, Gemma cannot live out her destiny. But finding Circe proves a most perilous task. . . .
This sumptuous companion to A Great and Terrible Beauty teems with Victorian thrills and chills that play out against the rich backdrop of 1895 London, a place of shadows and light . . . where inside great beauty can lie a rebel angel.
In this sequel to the Victorian fantasy A Great and Terrible Beauty, Gemma continues to pursue her role as the one destined to bind the magic of the Realms and restore it to the Order--a mysterious group who have been overthrown by a rebellion. Gemma, Felicity and Ann, (her girlfriends at Spence Academy for Young Ladies), use magical power to transport themselves on visits from their corseted world to the visionary country of the Realms, with its strange beauty and menace. There they search for the lost Temple, the key to Gemma's mission, and comfort Pippa, their friend who has been left behind in the Realms. After these visits they bring back magical power for a short time to use in their own world. Meanwhile, Gemma is torn between her attraction to the exotic Kartik, the messenger from the opposing forces of the Rakshana, and the handsome but clueless Simon, a young man of good family who is courting her. The complicated plot thickens when Gemma discovers a woman in Bedlam madhouse who knows where to find the Temple; Ann shows signs of being enamored of Gemma's loutish brother Tom, and their father's addiction to laudanum lands him in an opium den. A large part of the enjoyment of this unusual fantasy comes from the Victorian milieu and its restrictive rules about the behavior of proper young ladies, as contrasted with the unimaginable possibilities of the Realms, where Gemma has power to confront gorgons and ghosts and the responsibility to save a world. (Ages 12 and up) --Patty Campbell
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