Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger

[sigyns]

Summary: 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.

Sophronia Temminnick at 14 is a great trial more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners — and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Her poor mother, desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady, enrolls the lively tomboy in Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.

But 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.

I am a big fan of Gail Carriger’s adult series The Parasol Protectorate, so when I learned that she was writing a young adult series set in the same universe I was really excited. However I was also a little nervous, wondering how Carriger and her universe would take to the very different beast that is YA fiction.

So how did Carriger and Etiquette and Espionage do? High marks.

Read the rest of Catherine's review at On The Nightstand.

Comments

[phoenix]

New Gail Carriger book? I am excited!