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A Great and Terrible Beauty and Rebel Angels, both by Libba Bray.
I consider them part of the trend of young adult fiction that's proven to be as good as, and often better, than adult fiction. She's succeeded in writing in *precisely* the genre that I want to explore as a writer (historical-Gothic-supernatural-borderline fantasy set in the Victorian/Edwardian period), and she's done it beautifully. Her characters are brilliant, the descriptions are wonderful, and I was literally unable to lift my nose out of either of the books over the past 48 hours (this after I'd already read the first one before, albeit a year ago).
I'm almost certainly going to reread over the next few weeks.
I consider them part of the trend of young adult fiction that's proven to be as good as, and often better, than adult fiction. She's succeeded in writing in *precisely* the genre that I want to explore as a writer (historical-Gothic-supernatural-borderline fantasy set in the Victorian/Edwardian period), and she's done it beautifully. Her characters are brilliant, the descriptions are wonderful, and I was literally unable to lift my nose out of either of the books over the past 48 hours (this after I'd already read the first one before, albeit a year ago).
I'm almost certainly going to reread over the next few weeks.
