The Sweet Far Thing
Dec 2007 · The Gemma Doyle Trilogy Book 3 · Sold by Delacorte Press
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The gripping conclusion to the critically acclaimed New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Gemma Doyle trilogy, an exhilarating and haunting saga from the author of The Diviners series and Going Bovine.
It has been a year of change since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Her mother murdered, her father alaudanum 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. Despite certain peril, Gemma has bound the magic to herself and forged unlikely new alliances. Now, as Gemma approaches her London debut, the time has come to test these bonds.
The Order—the mysterious group her mother was once part of—is grappling for control of the realms, as is the Rakshana. Spence's burned East Wing is being rebuilt, but why now? Gemma and her friends see Pippa, but she is not the same. And their friendship faces its gravest trial as Gemma must decide once and for all what role she is meant for.
"A rare treat . . . beautifully crafted" --People
"A huge work of massive ambition.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A #1 Book Sense Bestseller
A New York Times Bestseller
A Publishers Weekly Bestseller
A USA Today Bestseller
A 2008 New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
CCBC Choice (Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison)
It has been a year of change since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Her mother murdered, her father alaudanum 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. Despite certain peril, Gemma has bound the magic to herself and forged unlikely new alliances. Now, as Gemma approaches her London debut, the time has come to test these bonds.
The Order—the mysterious group her mother was once part of—is grappling for control of the realms, as is the Rakshana. Spence's burned East Wing is being rebuilt, but why now? Gemma and her friends see Pippa, but she is not the same. And their friendship faces its gravest trial as Gemma must decide once and for all what role she is meant for.
"A rare treat . . . beautifully crafted" --People
"A huge work of massive ambition.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A #1 Book Sense Bestseller
A New York Times Bestseller
A Publishers Weekly Bestseller
A USA Today Bestseller
A 2008 New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
CCBC Choice (Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Ratings and reviews
4.7
92 reviews
Jacqueline
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September 8, 2019
832 Pages! Ugh! I didn't like the first book too much but it was decent. The second book I didn't like it all but decided to read the third book and see how it ended. It was worse. It continues the incessant whining and petulance as the first and second books but much much more. The characters make obvious mistakes time and again and after three hundred pages I'm scanning through chapters just to get through it. It could easily have been four hundred Pages shorter and it's still would have been tedious to get through. The battle at the end is the only thing worth reading and even that is disappointing. All the main characters you care about either die at the end or scatter to the four corners of the world. No payoff or satisfaction whatsoever
Hannah Scharf
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June 17, 2013
I have read this book 7 times and it never gets old to me. Easily my most treasured book. I'm sad the trilogy had to come to an end, but the very last paragraph is such a satisfying ending. Makes me cry every time! LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE.
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Samantha S
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June 12, 2021
This series is sooooo amazing.... I read all 3 books in less than a week. and the ending literally made me cry for 2 weeks straight... lol
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About the author
Libba Bray is the New York Times bestselling author of the Gemma Doyle trilogy (A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing); the Michael L. Printz Award-winning Going Bovine; Beauty Queens, an L.A. Times Book Prize finalist; and The Diviners series. She is originally from Texas but makes her home in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, son, and two sociopathic cats. Visit her at www.libbabray.com and at @libbabray on Twitter and Instagram.
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