Desire

Uncontrollable desire wraps each of the young girls at Spence. Felicity simply cannot get enough of her beloved Pippa, feeling genuine happiness again in her life. Ann auditions as the lovely Nan Washbrad for a musical and is victorious, never in her life has she felt such happiness and glee. And Gemma is uncontrollably in love with Kartik for she dreams of him nonstop and is her object of affection and desire. The magic is also addictive for each of the girls. They feel they need it to be happy and is like a seductive drug, getting worse with time. Gemma is now using her undefined magic in her real life not only the realms. She uses it to temporarily fixed her messed up family, trick teachers, transform Ann into Nan Washbrad, and to make herself feel better when her life is dismal. The return of Miss McCleethy is of utter joy for most of the students at Spence Academy except the trio. She is a member of the Order, hungry for power. Gemma is surrounded by schemes and plans but none of them are revealed to her or the reader. Libba Bray makes the reader feel as if they were Gemma Doyle because both Gemma and they want to know what is going on in the Realms and figure out the ploys.