Gail Carriger
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| Original Title: | Etiquette & Espionage |
| ISBN: | 031619008X (ISBN13: 9780316190084) |
| Edition Language: | English URL https://gailcarriger.com/books/etiquette-espionage/ |
| Series: | Finishing School #1 |
| Characters: | Sophronia Temminnick, Dimity Plumleigh-Teignmott, Pillover Plumleigh-Teignmott, Monique de Pelouse, Sister Herschel-Teape, Lady Linette de Limmone, Aloysius Braithwope, Sidheag Maccon, Beatrice Lefoux, Genevieve Lefoux |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2013), Prix Elbakin.net for Meilleur roman fantasy traduit Jeunesse (2014) |
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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 a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners--and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.
But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies learn to finish...everything. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but they also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage--in the politest possible ways, of course. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year's education.
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| Title | : | Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School #1) |
| Author | : | Gail Carriger |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 307 pages |
| Published | : | February 5th 2013 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Science Fiction. Steampunk. Fantasy. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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Tea should be required for the reading of all Gail Carriger books, don't you think?He...boasted an unassuming mustache, which was perched atop his upper lip cautiously, as though it were slightly embarrassed to be there and would like to slide away and become a sideburn or something more fashionable.After reading that amusing quote, I just had to read this book and I didn't regret it one bit. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia Temminnick is intelligent, curious, spirited and something of a tomboy. After getting into one too many trouble, Mrs. Temminnick decides its time to send
Tea should be required for the reading of all Gail Carriger books, don't you think?
Fantastic fun! Packed with Wodehousian humor!Whip-smart author Gail Carriger kicks off a diabolically clever girl's school espionage series in style! Whereas Austen prodded the society she was associated with, Etiquette & Espionage pokes fun at the Regency, early Victorian and Industrial Age manners and dress in a way that brands it with a slap on the ass!...a loving one though. It's clear that Carriger has an affinity for the period. Set in a steampunk world, the book is all gussied up in
Lovely YA adventure in Carriger's SOULLESS world. It was fun to see some characters from her adult books as kids, and the series is off to a rollicking start. The underlying mystery of this book was a bit light, mostly so that she could introduce the finishing school and the cast of characters, and that was fine by me, because they were delightful. I'd really like to see her go a bit longer with the next one, this felt too short! Also, I really, REALLY need a mechanical wiener dog named
"[Is] that wise? Having a mess of seedling evil geniuses falling in love with you willy-nilly? What if they feel spurned?" "Ah, but in the interim, think of the lovely gifts they can make you. Monique bragged that one of her boys made her silver and wood hair sticks as anti-supernatural weapons. With amethyst inlay. And another made her an exploding wicker chicken." "Goodness, what's that for?" Dimity pursed her lips. "Who doesn't want an exploding wicker chicken?" I have to say, I was equal
Fun! Feminism! Girliness! I would definitely recommend the audiobook as the narration is wonderful.
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