The Sweet Far Thing (Gemma Doyle, #3) in Building a SciFi/Fantasy Library

Apr 06, 2010 Andrea rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy, youngadult, boarding-school

Gemma is forced to (finally) decide what to do with the magic of the realms now that forces of evil have begun to openly move to seize it. The time has also come for the girls to leave school and make their debuts along with choices about their futures.

OMG that was soooo loooooong. (Apparently teen Victorian lit puts me in the mood for txt speak.) Seriously, make a decision. Any decision. The realms and your lives are in danger. Do NOT play games in a castle.

I enjoyed most of the themes here, an ...more

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May 15, 2010 Cindywho rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, fantasy-sf, ya

I'm not sure why I enjoyed this series so much. The story is all over the place, the girls are often awful to each other and the denouement dragged a bit, but it was great fun. The reader was adept at creating character voices that reflected them well (there was only one part where I wondered if she'd mixed them up a little) I'd be willing to check out any more that Libba Bray has to offer. ...more

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Dec 10, 2010 emily rated it really liked it

Shelves: queers-and-queer-relationships, fantasy, owned-physical, fiction-historical, young-adult, 2008-to-2010, bildungsroman, right-in-the-feels, ghosts-and-haunted-houses

a perfect conclusion to the series. it's been a long time since a young adult series engrossed me to this degree; there should be more YA writers like libba bray, who merges gripping plot with real, flawed, relatable characters to make a set of books i sincerely couldn't put down (i finished the entire trilogy in about four days). ...more

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