Sunday, May 1, 2011

Book Review #2 - Rebel Angels by Libba Bray

Rebel Angels is the sequel to Libba Bray's A Great And Terrible Beauty. It's nearly Christmas and the girls are leaving Spence to spend time with their families. Meanwhile, Gemma's visions intensify and become more frequent, and more visits to the realms are inevitable.
I loved this more than the first one. 548 pages and I flew through it in less than a week. Felicity finally won me over. Her past matches perfectly with how she acts now and gives her the depth her character craved. Ann gets deeper and even easier to relate to. Libba did a great job of inducting real modern-day problems into a Victorian gothic. The twists had me putting the book down and shaking my head in amazement. Libba is one of those authors who do that wonderful thing where the sequel is just as or even more amazing in this case than the first book. I look forward to really reading The Sweet Far Thing, the final book, and see where our girls end up.

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