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• Crowning Moment of Awesome: Bare minimum, three per book. As a conservative estimate.
  • In The Sweet Far Thing, Gemma finally confronts the Rakshana when they threaten to kill her brother. She quickly demonstrates what a bad idea this is.
  • In Rebel Angels, Gemma & Co. are cornered by the Poppy Warriors, and the leader is teasing Felicity about her father raping her as a child in attempt to torment her into suicide. Not only does Felicity not give in, she shoots him through the throat, facilitating their escape, and later shows signs of beginning to overcome her shame and guilt and accept that she is not to blame for what happened to her.

"He shouldn't have said those things to me," she says in great hiccuping cries. "He shouldn't have said them." It takes me a moment to realize that she is talking about Azrael and what happened in the catacombs. I think of her standing on that rock, piercing our tormentor with her arrow. "You mustn't be sorry for what you did." She looks into my face, her sobs subsiding to a cold, tearless fury. She hoists the nearly empty quiver onto her shoulder. "I'm not."

• • Impossible to forget the hilarious scene when Felicity causes Lady Denby to loudly break wind after harassing Ann in Rebel Angels
• Crowning Moment of Funny: Several of Gemma's snarky inner monologues, and translations of what people say to what they actually mean.
• High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Plenty of it dispersed throughout the three novels, including but not limited to some of Gemma's visions (especially in Rebel Angels), the Poppy Warriors, the water nymphs, and some of the more supernatural nighttime occurances at Spence.
• Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped: Felicity's "ghost story" about the lives that await her, Gemma, Pippa, and Ann if they accept their roles as Victorian women is not subtle in its feminist message, but it's no less effective for that.
• Tear Jerker: The scene in which Gemma realizes that Felicity was abused as a child, particularly when she warns Polly to always lock her door at night.
• Unfortunate Implications: It's a little awkward that Felicity, who turns out to be a lesbian, was sexually abused as a child, since it plays into the not-uncommon but erroneous belief that lesbianism is caused by bad experiences with men. That doesn't seem to be the author's intention at all, but...