Libba Bray - The Sweet Far Thing

This is the final book in the Gemma Trilogy, and it's a somewhat surprising book. There's some things that you know are going to happen, but there are many surprises as well: Felicity, Kartik, Mrs. Nightwing, the Order, and the Rakshana to name a few. No one is spared in this book. People do get killed and others do sacrifice themselves.
I rather enjoyed this book, although the final battle at the end made me cry a bit. All in all, a good read. I recommend the entire series. (Which only covers a year in Gemma's life, but it is the most important one of her life.)

Libba Bray - A Great and Terrible Beauty and Rebel Angels

"A Great and Terrible Beauty" and "Rebel Angels" by Libba Bray

Gemma lives in India with her family when her mother is mysteriously killed. After that Gemma is sent to a finishing school for girls called Spence Academy for Young Ladies. There she meets Ann, a shy scholarship student sent there to learn to be her cousins' governess, Felicity and Pippa, both sent to learn how to be proper ladies and graduate so they can have their "season".
Gemma soon discovers that she can enter a place called the Realms, where all is magical, but it has a few restrictions: dont eat the berries, dont cross into the Winterlands, and dont leave anyone behind.
Gemma also discovers that not everything is how it seems, and after some unfortunate events in the first book, "A Great and Terrible Beauty", Gemma starts to realize that with the magic loose she can no longer trust anything or anyone in the Realms until she finds the Temple and binds the magic.
They are very fast reads, and I'm currently working on the third of the series now.
There are many surprises in them as well as Gemmas inside humor and sarcasm.