The sweet far thing
Record details
- ISBN: 0440237777 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780440237778 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 0385902956 (Gibraltar lib. bdg.)
- ISBN: 9780385902953 (Gibraltar lib. bdg.)
- ISBN: 0385730306 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780385730303 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
819 p. ; 22 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, c2007.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | At Spence Academy, sixteen-year-old Gemma Doyle continues preparing for her London debut while struggling to determine how best to use magic to resolve a power struggle in the enchanted world of the realms, and to protect her own world and loved ones. |
Target Audience Note: | Young Adult Follett Library Resources |
Study Program Information Note: | Acclerated Reader AR 4.8 30.0 |
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Genre: | Young adult fiction. |
Available copies
- 19 of 19 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Southbury Public Library. (Show)
Holds
- 0 current holds with 19 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Oxford Public Library | YAH FANTASY BRA (Text)
Series: Gemma Doyle, #3
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33530109470465 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Salem Free Public Library | YFIC BRA (Text) | 33640121273720 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Scoville Memorial Library - Salisbury | YA BRAY No. 3 (Text)
Genre:
YA Historical Fiction
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37538108389731 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | S YA FIC BRAY, L (Text) | 34005113480650 | Storage | Available | - |
Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | YA FIC BRAY, L (Text) | 34005096171748 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Thompson Public Library | YA Bray (Text) | 34038118886191 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Tolland Public Library | YA BRA (Text) | 34051107154588 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Willimantic Public Library | Y BRA (Text) | 34036113982643 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Wolcott Public Library | YA BRAY, L. GEMMA DOYLE #3 (Text) | 34031100758270 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Electronic resources
Kirkus Review
The Sweet Far Thing
Kirkus Reviews
Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
This trilogy closer fails to deliver on the potential of the stellar A Great and Terrible Beauty (2004). Schoolgirl Gemma is facing the consequences of her impulsive commitment to share the magic of the Realms with all magical creatures. Living up to her promises will require giving up her own powers, and without those powers, how will Gemma and her friends ever escape the choking propriety that Victorian society demands? Moreover, villains abound: Realms creatures keep turning up dead, villainous Circe might not be as destroyed as everyone thought and impatient centaurs turn against Gemma. Unfortunately, in this installment, Gemma's mystical adventure has slowed to a grinding pace. After hundreds of pages of inaction, rich descriptions descend to wordiness and Gemma's adolescent development is stilted, and the sex-positive, queer-friendly spirit of A Great and Terrible Beauty has vanished, replaced with a harsh magical morality. (Fantasy. YA) Copyright ĆĀ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
School Library Journal Review
The Sweet Far Thing
School Library Journal
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Gr 9 Up-This hefty tome is the final installment in this popular historical fantasy trilogy starring plucky Victorian schoolgirl Gemma Doyle. Having unloosed the magic of the realms beyond her world in A Great and Terrible Beauty (2003) and bound it to herself as priestess in Rebel Angels (2005, both Delacorte), Gemma is now faced with deciding whether to fight or ally with the many creatures of the realms who want access to the magic. She also must decide whether the mysterious members of the Order and of the Rakshana who dog her steps are to be trusted, or whether they simply seek to compound their power by taking the magic for themselves. The realms themselves seem to be changing, growing darker and more dangerous by the day-a change echoed by Gemma's friend Pippa, who seems to be turning into something not wholly human as she grows more entrenched in the realms. With the addition of a fairly chaste romance with lust object and erstwhile enemy Kartik and all the real-world drama that accompanies Gemma's troubled family life and upcoming social debut, the novel is somewhat overstuffed and overlong, crammed full of perhaps too many characters, plotlines, and breathless intrigue. As in previous installments, some of the protofeminist musings placed in the mouths of Gemma and her friends ring a bit false. However, the novel's fast-paced and exciting ending and Bray's lyrical descriptions of the decaying realms are sure to enchant readers who loved Gemma's previous exploits.-Meredith Robbins, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High School, New York City (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
BookList Review
The Sweet Far Thing
Booklist
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Fans of the Gemma Doyle series, which began withĆĀ A Great and Terrible BeautyĆĀ ĆĀ ĆĀ ĆĀ (2003), will grab this novel, in which Gemma seeks to restore magicĆĀ to the Realms, help friends and family at home, andĆĀ find herĆĀ place between the worlds.ĆĀ Given the page count, however, they'll need to set aside plenty of reading time.ĆĀ Scenes in the realms are weighed down by description, andĆĀ they don't always advance the plot. Yet Bray does recapture theĆĀ menace,ĆĀ mystery, and heady romance of theĆĀ previous books, as well as theĆĀ wry, sharpĆĀ sense of theĆĀ Victorian society.--Zvirin, Stephanie Copyright 2007 Booklist
Publishers Weekly Review
The Sweet Far Thing
Publishers Weekly
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The concluding volume in the trilogy begun in A Great and Terrible Beauty is a huge work of massive ambition, an undertaking that involves the plaiting and tying off a dozen plot threads-impending war in the realms and heroine Gemma Doyle's control of its magic being the central thread but, perhaps, not the most interesting. In chronicling Gemma's first year at Spence Academy, Bray has, over three books, widened her canvas from finishing school to fin-de-siecle London, weaving in the defining movements of the era-labor strikes over factory conditions, suffrage, the "radical" Impressionists just across the Channel, even fashion trends like bloomers for women daring enough to ride bicycles. Gemma is both buffeted and bolstered by her exposure to these developments, and readers experience how they shape her burgeoning understanding of who she is and who she may become. Some of Gemma's struggle is about power. As exalted as she is within the realms for her role as High Priestess of the secret society, her "otherness" marks her as unsuitable for proper Victorian circles. Gemma chafes not only at the physical constraints of a corset but at the myriad restrictions placed on women. Her quest is to break free, but at what cost? Bray poses these vital questions without sacrificing the gothic undertones of the previous volumes-the body count is high, and the deaths, gruesome. That creepiness is balanced by the fully realized company of players, including the insufferable headmistress, Mrs. Nightwing, the acid-tongued Felicity Worthington, hunky heartthrob Kartik and, of course, Gemma herself, a heroine readily embraced. Ages 14-up. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
The Horn Book Review
The Sweet Far Thing
The Horn Book
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Read by Josephine Bailey. (High School)While preparing for her London debut, sixteen-year-old Gemma Doyle (A Great and Terrible Beauty; Rebel Angels) struggles to balance the constraints of Victorian propriety with the unhindered power she commands in the "realms," an enchanted world. Against a social backdrop of Impressionism, labor strikes, and women's suffrage, Gemma explores her own need for independence while testing her tenuous alliances within the realms. British narrator Bailey fully commands her large cast, eloquently delineating each character's accent and pitch. Despite some slow-moving exposition, Bailey manages to keep listeners engaged as events become increasingly suspenseful and brutal. This hefty audiotome (clocking in at over twenty hours) recaptures the peril and romance of the previous books, but the tone is considerably darker. From HORN BOOK, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.