Rebecca+F.

This is the second book in the series. The first book is //A Great and Terrible Beauty//. I liked this series because each little event affected the story and made me think. It was also very entertaining. I didn't like the end fight in //Rebel Angels// because it happened too fast but I loved the rest of the series.
 * // Rebel Angels //**
 * by Libba Bray Summary E-time Rebecca Fairbanks **

__** Setting **__ __-__ This book takes place in London for the Christmas holiday in 1895 and on the outskirts of London in the Spence Academy. It also takes place in the Realms. __** Characters **__ - ** Gemma Doyle ** is a round character. Her thoughts and ideas change throughout the story while the happening in the Realms and London change. ** -Felicity Worthington ** is a round character. She is the popular, “I’m everything” girl. ** -Ann Bradshaw ** is a round character. She is the small, shy girl of the group who has no family and cuts herself because she has no future and everyone picks on her. At the train station in London, a man with the Rakshana follows her. While trying to get away she bumps into hansom Simon Middleton. He asks her and her family to dinner in his home. He sends Gemma a box with a fake floor that opens up to reveal a hidden compartment. On the way home, Gemma sees Miss Moore, a former Spence teacher, on the street. Miss Moore invites Gemma to tea. At dinner, Tom, Gemma’s older brother, works at a lunatic hospital and tells them about a girl named Nell Hawkins who talks about the Order and has visions. Her father is recently addicted to laudanum. She is worried for his health. The three-some go to the realms and meet the Gorgon. Gorgon takes them to the Forests of Lights to find more info on the Temple and its location. They find nothing. Gemma figures out that the Gorgon can no longer be trusted. The water nymphs try to capture the girls for their skin. When they return from the realms she heals her father. She has more visions. That night the family went to Simon’s for dinner. It is totally obvious that Simon fancies her. Kartik being the new driver for their family sees her and Simon talking and gets jealous of Simon. The next day, Gemma decides to go talk to Nell to get more info about the Temple. Nell kept saying, “Stick to the path.” After her strange visit with Nell she finds Felicity and Ann and they see Miss McCleethy and follow her in to a book store. She buys a book and Gemma is curious about the book so she buys another copy. They follow Miss McCleethy some more and she goes in to Bethlem, the asylum. Later Felicity reads the book aloud. It gives info about the Order and that the Order and Circe used anagrams to seal their true identity. Miss McCleety’s anagram in “They call me Crice.” They go to a gallery with Miss Moore and tell her about the anagram. Later, Lady Denby and Simon come and they ask to go for a stroll through a park. Gemma sees the man with scar. At home that night she has another vision. Gemma figures out that Nell was one of the girls in white in her visions. Kartik takes her to a secret pub to talk privately. At home she and her grandma are waiting for Father to come home. While they wait Gemma gets a beautiful purple necklace in the mail from Simon. They go to the opera. Gemma meets Felicity and Ann. They sneak out to visit the realms. Ann is cutting herself again and Gemma begs her to stop. Gemma’s amulet is a glowing compass in the realms. It leads them to the Caves of Sighs. Asha, one of the Untouchables at the Caves paints them for protection. It doesn’t work on Pippa. When they get back, Gemma has too much magic and it overwhelms her. That night she has another dream of Pippa being a monster. In the morning she is sick with catarrh. She finds out that Miss McCleety is Mrs. Nightwing’s sister. Later that night she feels better and goes to the dance at Bethlem. Miss McCleethy is there looking for Nell. Nell tries to reveal where the Temple is to no avail. On Christmas Eve Kartik finds where Father has been. He is addicted to opium. They go find him and it makes Gemma devastated. In the morning Gemma goes out to talk to Kartik. They dance in the sunrise and then Kartik leaves. Gemma dances with Simon at the Worthington dance. He gives them absinthe (liquor) and Gemma feels really drunk. Simon takes her to a back room and asks her to run away with him. She has a vision at the same time and it scares him that he has done something wrong when she screams. He leaves the dance without saying goodbye.
 * __Summary-__** Gemma is excited for the holidays and she misses Pippa. She, Felicity, and Ann go to a hollowed out tree and offer a lace angel to Pippa and bid her Happy Christmas. All the while, Gemma was nervous of what danger would be in the realms so she didn’t go for two months. She was warned from the visions she was having in her sleep. She finds a note in the tree that Kartik left saying, “I need to see you immediately.” She sees him in the trees on the way back to the school but decides not to talk to him. Then, she talks about what she knows about the realms and the Order and how Circe wants to push the Order out. At night time, a new teacher arrives at Spence. She kind of creeps Gemma out. The next morning during breakfast she “accidently” spills berries on Cecily’s (her mortal enemy) dress for talking bad about Ann being a scholarship student. When Gemma, Felicity, and Ann go play in the snow, Gemma talks to Kartik. He tells her she needs to find the Temple in the realms and seal the magic by saying magic words. His real plan is to get her to seal the Temple to the Rakshana and then kill her. Later, Miss McCleethy decides to take the girls out for archery and Gemma loses concentration and shoots Miss McCleethy in the hand. While looking for bandages and a new glove for Miss McCleethy she finds clues in Miss McCleethy’s room that prove her to be Circe. Later, Gemma finally takes Felicity and Ann to the realms. They find Pippa and ask her to help them find the Temple. Pippa has no clue. When they return Gemma hears Miss McCleethy and Mrs. Nightwing chatting in the East Wing. Later, Kartik said don’t trust Pippa.

I am not going to tell you the rest! :D

** The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray Published by Delacorte Press Fantasy **

In the prologue some men find a women’s body in the Thames River. She has a note in her hand that says “The Tree of All Souls lives.” She also had a crescent eye necklace. Meanwhile at the school Gemma and her friends are leaning how to curtsy but the noise of the restoration on the East Wing distracts them. They go outside to watch the progress on the building and Gemma finds her mother’s name on a piece of wood from the old East Wing. Ann returns form spending a week in Kent at her cousins’ house. Felicity is being really snotty and rude. Cicely upsets Ann like she does every day. Gemma cannot open the realms. She tries but it is to no avail. She feels lost without her magic. She doesn’t know what to do with her life now. While on a visit to London, Gemma over hears that if no one will present Felicity, her family’s fortune will be forfeited. She has a dream and voices say to her that there is a secret door to the realms. When she returns to the school she goes on a midnight walk by herself and finds an old concrete door in the ground. She enters the realms from there. She was so excited she rushed to get Felicity and Ann and took them to the realms. They see Pippa who decided to not go to the Winterlands and has found a castle to stay in. Later, Pippa asks Gemma to help her cross over the river. The next time Gemma goes to the realms, she goes to see if Miss Moore, Circe, is really dead. She goes to the Caves of Sighs to the well and figures out when Circe wakes up that she is not dead. They go to see a magician and he tells them about the woman Gemma described as Wilhelmina Wyatt. She was mute and she wrote on a piece of slate to speak. Later, in the book Gemma and her friends visit the realms. They agree to go to the Winterlands. In the Winterlands they find the Tree of All Souls. Gemma touches the Tree and sees Mrs. Spence. He tells Gemma that she needs a dagger that Wilhelmina had in her possession. To skip to the end, Gemma takes Kartik into the realms. They fight a big battle in the Winterlands and I won’t tell you what happened to them all.