Gemma Doyle Trilogy

I thought I'd open a thread to discuss Libba Bray's series (A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing). Not vampires, but still supernatural in its own way.

Has anyone here read it?

OMG you've read this I thought i was like the only one on here!!! OMG i can't belive you read it¡.... awesome cool, so like the girl i am i'm going to ask you.... what did you think of Kartik dying but not really at the end??

I felt it was the anti-feminist ending. Why can't I have it all? I mean Felicity gets to live her Sappho dream in Paris, the other one becomes the actress, and Gemma loses all that matter to her. Why couldn't she have gone to America with Kartik? Why couldn't someone else have sacrificed themselves to the Tree of All Souls? Why couldn't the tree have been stabbed to save him.

It's one thing to lose the one you love to death. It's another to be able to visit him in a sense as he continues to exist and yet not. There were apparently several alt. endings and Bray chose this one out of them all. I for one would like to read the other options and conveniently substitute the one I like for the craptastic tear jerker she gave us.

wow dudes i like totally agree with you but Felicity lost Pippa and Ann didn't get to be beautiful and I would rather have someone partailly than to lose them completely... so what I'm trying to say is that everyone gained and lost sommething.

Felicity didn't get Pippa true but I never got the sense that Pippa was "true love" so much as a daliance given how quickly Fee was thinking of Parisian women. And although Ann wouldn't be pretty, she escaped her horrible fate and became the singer/actress she always wanted and now will have a chance at marriage and kids and a career.

I'm a sucker for happy endings and I guess I don't see why Kartik had to die for the author to make a statement.

I have to admit I have picked these books up, and then put them back down proobably 50 times. Are they worth the read? Please shed some light on them for us, I don't want to be disaponted.

I don't regret reading them. They're a great ride.

^Agreed, Admin...that said, is it just me?Or would Rose and Company really be more like the lovely ladies of Spence Academy + Intelligent Men who'also have physical strength on their side than they are like the Bella + the Cullens + Wolf Pack, who all turned out to be spineless, in the end?