First off I love that the character's name is Gemma (because my oldest daughter's nickname is Gemma).
This is the story of Gemma who lives in India but desperately wants to move to London. On her birthday Gemma's whole life changes when her mother dies and she experiences seeing the future for the first time. 

I think the overall story was an essential setup for the rest of the series and we got a lot of good foundation information. The characters were slightly annoying but also they are teenage girls who are at a boarding school to help prepare them to be ladies and wives. 

I thought that the school setting was interesting and the mystery in this story definitely kept me reading. I think that Libba Bray's writing style is very readable. That is one thing that I love about Bray's novels is that when I sit down to read one they keep me pulled into the story. 

I think my only real critique of this book is that the girls kept doing really reckless things and as a mom and 33-year-old woman I just kept getting very frustrated with their choices. 

Overall though I really enjoyed this book and can not wait to continue with this series.

I really enjoyed the premise of this book. I also enjoyed the characters for the most part. I think my issue with this book was the pacing for me didn’t match how fast things were happening in the characters real time. I feel like for me the story dragged in places where the characters were experiencing time move more quickly. I did enjoy this book and would like to read more from this author. I also want to make it known that I started reading this book right before I started back to college so that may have something to do with things as well.