Etiquette & Espionage

Gail Carriger is back!

The Finishing School series is set in the same world as the Parasol Protectorate, only 20 years earlier. We follow 14-year-old Sophronia Temminnick (don't you love that name?) through her first year at Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing School, where she learns to finish... everything.

I adored the writing, Gail's quick wit and humor are fantastic, the characters are lovable and get themselves into exceedingly ridiculous situations. There are new gimmicks and old friends, there are mechanimals and eyelash fluttering classes. Whether you know Gail Carriger's writing or not, pick this up. It's a lot of fun.


My full review can be found at SFF Book Review.

4.5 stars.

When we meet 14-year-old Sophronia in the first scene of Etiquette & Espionage, she???s diving out of a runaway dumbwaiter after attempting to use it to spy on the mysterious woman sitting in her mother???s parlor. Despite Sophronia???s inglorious entry and introduction, the lady invites her to attend Mademoiselle Geraldine???s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. Sephronia does not want to be reformed, but she is sent nonetheless.

Fortunately for Sophronia (and unknown to her mother or to headmistress Mademoiselle Geraldine), this finishing school is highly unusual. Most noticeable is that it floats far above the ground in a fantastical dirigible. Second, it recruits students from the most evil families in the country (though Sophronia is a covert recruit). Most important is that while the ladies of Mademoiselle Geraldine???s are being properly and traditionally .... Read the rest at FanLit: http://www.fantasyliterature.com/reviews/etiquette-espionage/