Waistcoats & Weaponry
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Class is back in session in this glorious steampunk series by bestselling author Gail Carriger. Sophronia continues her second year at finishing school in style--with a steel-bladed fan secreted in the folds of her ball gown, of course. Such a fashionable choice of weapon comes in handy when Sophronia, her best friend Dimity, sweet sootie Soap, and the charming Lord Felix Mersey hijack a suspiciously empty train to return their chum Sidheag to her werewolf pack in Scotland. But when Sophronia discovers they are being trailed by a dirigible of Picklemen and flywaymen, she unearths a plot that threatens to throw all of London into chaos. With her friends in mortal danger, Sophronia must sacrifice what she holds most dear--her freedom. Gather your poison, your steel-tipped quill, and the rest of your school supplies and join Mademoiselle Geraldine's proper young killing machines in the third rousing installment in the New York Times bestselling Finishing School series.
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This series has certainly grown up rapidly. Nothing too intimate actually happens but there is a discussion that skirts around oral sex and some full frontal nudity. For a series that started at the high end of ‘middle grade', it's a bit shocking.
I do adore this series with its excessive use of silly long words and aversion to maintaining the status quo.
???It???s most annoying of you to order me to do something I???m going to do anyway. Now it???ll look like I???m obeying you.??? ~Miss Sophronia Temminnick
I absolutely adore Gail Carriger???s FINISHING SCHOOL series in which spunky Miss Sophronia Temminnick and her friends are being finished while they learn to finish others. For Mademoiselle Geraldine???s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality is not your usual Victorian boarding school. Unbeknownst to its headmistress, those Young Ladies of Quality are being trained to be assassins who will one day serve and protect their queen (or at least Sophronia assumes this ??? she???s not actually sure yet).
In Waistcoats & Weaponry, the third installment, the young ???ladies??? are still in their second year of school. While the academy drifts through the ether in a ... Read More: http://www.fantasyliterature.com/reviews/waistcoats-weaponry/
A wonderful romp! Highly recommend to fans of Carriger... and even if you aren't a fan just yet.
