"The Great and Terrible Beauty" by: Libba Bray is good story that would make you want to read it every second of the day. In the beginning of the story the main character Gemma lives in India and is having her 16th birthday soon. Something terrible happens to Gemma's mother and she is sent to a boarding school in England. There she finds out that her mother was in a special group called the "Order". Gemma realizes that she can see things in the future but everything that she sees is terrible things. She can also see dead people, but she sees them as normal people in a different world. These dead people that she sees help her figure out what happened to her mother and also help her find out more about the school. The last 30 pages are the most intense part of the book but you have to read the whole book first to understand what is going on. I would prefer that girl's should read this because there is some romance in it that is mixed in perfectly with everything else that is going on in the story. This book is the first book of a series that Libba Bray has written. I haven't read the other books but I can assume that those other books will be just as amazing as this one is. I would most definitely prefer this book to anyone that needs a book to read.