This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life in Books.I thought that this book was just okay. This is really a pretty generous 3 stars but I am going to go with it. I have wanted to read Gail Carriger's work for a very long time and I remember being excited when I got my hands on a review c...
Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger Book 1 of Finishing School 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 ...
Series: Finishing School #1 This was a kind of cute young-adult steampunk story about a tomboy in possibly Victorian times (there's talk of a telegraph device and gas lighting) who gets packed off to finishing school to try to polish off her rougher edges. As it turns out, however, the finishing s...
In which an unloved youngest child, unrecognized for her shrewdness, unappreciated for her eccentricity, finds a new and improved family while learning to ignore considerations of convention, tradition, class, race and sexual orientation, in favour of one abiding principle - do unto others as they h...
My first Gail Carringer book was Soulless, which was the first book in the Parasol Protectorant series. I was immediately hooked and read all five books in the series within less than a month. I guess you could say I devoured them. When Etiquette and Espionage came out, I was reluctant to pick it...
Rereading this first in series book, in advance of receiving the final book, Manners & Mutiny, reminds me of how much I adore the Finishing School Series. It is, by far, the best Steampunk/Historical/espionage/comedy of manners/YA series I have read. The humor, the characters, the world-building, ...
Etiquette & Espionage The Characters: Sophronia Temminnick Dimity Plumleigh-Teignmottand other students The Story: Took three times but I finally got this “read”. It was an interesting story and I’ll likely continue the series but I will say it did not grab me like the Souless series. The Random ...
I received a copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for the opportunity to read this book!This was my first book by Gail Carriger, and it definitely won't be my last. This one was fun, humorous, and overall, really enjoyable. I really liked Sop...
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