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The Sweet Far Thing

By Libba Bray

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| Hardcover | 9780385730303

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IT HAS BEEN A YEAR OF CHANGE since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Her mother murdered, her father a
laudanum addict, Gemma has relied on an unsuspected strength and has discovered an ability to travel to an enchanted world called the realms, where dark magic runs wild. DespContinue

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THE SWEET FAR THING

It's 1896, and Gemma Doyle's time at Spence Academy for Young Ladies is about to come to an end in a whirl of parties and balls that will mark her and her classmates' debutante "season." For Gemma, the departure from Spence is bittersweet. As eager a ... (read full critics)

teenreads published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

THE SWEET FAR THING

It's 1896, and Gemma Doyle's time at Spence Academy for Young Ladies is about to come to an end in a whirl of parties and balls that will mark her and her classmates' debutante "season." For Gemma, the departure from Spence is bittersweet. As eager a ... (read full critics)

teenreads published on Mon, 13 Sep 2010

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What a beautiful ending to one of the most mesmerizing trilogies. Even though it was so sad! In this book Gemma's problems really multiply and she has trouble trying to distinguish what is real and what is only her imagination. The tension is certainly high!

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Niamh said on Mar 14, 2008 | Add your feedback

I loved this book!
very few books made me cry, and this was definately one of them!

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Acsharp said on Aug 1, 2008 | Add your feedback

*** This comment contains spoilers! ***

I'm shocked.
I've just finished this book - the third one of the trilogy - and I'm both sad and happy.
Gemma hasn't failed as she tought she'd have done, and the Realms are save. But Kartik... his sacrifice made me cry. Poor, poor Kartik. And poor Gemma.
Ann finally finds her way. Con ... (continue)

I'm shocked.
I've just finished this book - the third one of the trilogy - and I'm both sad and happy.
Gemma hasn't failed as she tought she'd have done, and the Realms are save. But Kartik... his sacrifice made me cry. Poor, poor Kartik. And poor Gemma.
Ann finally finds her way. Congratulations lil' Annie.
Pip was a traitor, but I knew it... I'm sorry for Fee who really loved her.
In the end it's a wonderful trilogy.
Thrilling, suspensefull and full of passion and love: 'cause in this books Love is the real principal character.
Effectly "The Sweet Far Thing" is quite too much slow in the first three acts, but after it improves very much.
Vote: 9/10

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Blackrystal said on May 2, 2008 | Add your feedback