![]() ![]() ![]() This last volume provides a satisfying ending for Gemma Doyle fans, if the length doesn’t discourage them. ![]() It is not until the second half of the book, over 400 pages in, that the action and tension build to the climax. The story of Gemma’s struggles with her decision about the magic of the realms and other mysteries that need solving lags through the first half of the book as she shares the magic with Felicity, Ann, and Pippa, who become more greedy for it as time goes on. ![]() Whom should she trust? The Order-the group of powerful priestesses of which her mother was a part? Or the creatures in the realms that want to make an alliance and share the power with her? What does she do about the Rakshana who have become jealous of the power of the Order and now seek to grab the power from Gemma? Her visions continue in this volume leading her through more adventures with her friends-beautiful and demanding Felicity and plain and timid Ann-in the realms, the Rakshana court her brother to get back at her for holding all the power, Kartik is back but more distant and cold than ever, and Pippa seems to be becoming more and more a creature of the realms. This last of the trilogy (A Great and Terrible Beauty and Rebel Angels) finds Gemma Doyle with all the magic of the realms bound to her and a decision to make about her powers. ![]()
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