Libba Bray

I'm re-listening to the last book in one of my favorite trilogies: the A Great and Terrible Beauty series by Libba Bray. Once again, it's a YA story with a supernatural story line; clearly, I have my preferred themes. But I think there is a HUGE amount of marvelous young adult literature out there, and I don't believe you have to qualify as "young" to enjoy it. Nor do you have to be fond of the supernatural, as there are scores of novels which don't feature that element. I happen to love it, but that doesn't mean that every book which has it is necessarily good. Bray's series, however, is superb, and I would recommend it to anyone, of any age. The books themselves are beautiful, but the narrator of the audiobooks, Josephine Bailey, is exceptional.

It's 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls, and their foray into the spiritual world, lead to? (from audible.com)