GoodReads Description: It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to finishing school.
Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is the bane of her mother's existence. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper etiquette at tea--and god forbid anyone see her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. She enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.
But little do Sophronia or her mother know that this is a school where ingenious young girls learn to finish, all right--but it's a different kind of finishing. Mademoiselle Geraldine's certainly trains young ladies in the finer arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also in the other kinds of finishing: the fine arts of death, diversion, deceit, espionage, and the modern weaponries. Sophronia and her friends are going to have a rousing first year at school.
First in a four book YA series set 25 years before the Parasol Protectorate but in the same universe.
Why I'm Excited: Steampunk spy school? Do you really need to me to elaborate?
Etiquette & Espiaonage comes out February 5, 2013 from Little Brown and Company.
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Not to mention - Gail Carriger. The woman. Wowie I'm excited for this.
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Yesssss, I just got this one. Super excited for it!
ReplyDeleteThis is on my to-read list too!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI completely agree steampunk + spies = awesome! I have yet to read the Parasol Protectorate but I can't wait to do so.
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Thanks a lot <3
No you do not need to elaborate! I was thinking I would read this one just because the cover is so freaking cool looking but then I scrolled down and saw your line "steampunk spy school" and was like "Um, Yes Please..."
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