This book was written by Libba Bray. It’s set in the 1800s. It’s about a 16-year-old girl who discovers that she has powers. The book starts in India where Gemma (the main character) was living with her family. She was walking with her mother and housekeeper in an indian market and was begging her mother to send her to a boarding school in London where all the girls go to learn manners and skills that will make them proper ladies until they go off to get married.Her mother was so against the idea. While they were walking, she split up with her mother and housekeeper and got lost, then she saw a vision of her mother killing herself after entering a shop and after that she saw her mother dead in reality.She never told anybody about what she saw. Her father sent her to the boarding school in London. Where she continued to see visions that lead her to a diary of a girl that had the same powers as hers and was a student at the same school a long time ago. She and 3 of the girls she befriended at the school would sneak out everynight to the caves in the forest near the school to read parts of the diary where they uncovered many secrets and learned about the “realms” she had the power to go the realms and she would take her friends with her. She saw her mother there who told her that the magic shouldn’t be taken out to the real world. So the girls kept looking for answers at the school and from the gypsy camp that was in the woods until they found the shocking truth.
I normally don’t read books that were set in another century but I really liked this one and I give it 4 stars. It has 2 sequels: Rebel Angels and The Sweet Far Thing.