The Sweetest Far Thing

This novel is the ending of the trilogy including The Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and now finally The Sweetest Far Thing. These novels create a new world from the late 1800s Britain, a place where women were expected to be poised and elegant and to follow all of the rules. When Gemma Doyle is forcefully relocated to Spence Academy, a school made to get girls ready for their debuts, she turns the tables around. She and her friends, Felicity and Ann, make their own stories as they prepare to become women. But that's not the only thing that's special about Gemma, she has a fantastic power of being able to go into another world, the realms. This is a place where a person can be whatever they want to be, stunningly beautiful, amazing singer, have the guy of a girls' dream. But it is not all fun and games when Gemma if forced to leave her beloved Pippa behind and close them off to all magic forever. To add to her mix of confusion, she falls in love with an off limits, gypsie guy named Kartik, who is mysterious and handsome. Her drug addicted father does not help the matter and her over-the-top conservative brother only seems to make matters worse as she fights to find what is right and how to set her world right again.