A Great and Terrible Beauty (2003) Libba Bray

I picked this book up because the cover caught my eye. I think it’s the corset, which looks both authentic and terribly uncomfortable (or so says the eternal tomboy). Before the book starts, Libba Bray quotes part of the poem, The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, a poem that has interested me since I was younger, because it’s mentioned in the Agatha Christie book The Mirror Crack’d. I figured that was pretty good grounds for getting a book–despite the fact that the main character is a teenager.

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