Etiquette & Espionage
Ratings76
Average rating3.8
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Ratings76
Average rating3.8
Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than in 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.
Series
5 primary booksFinishing School is a 5-book series with 5 primary works first released in 2013 with contributions by Gail Carriger.
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this is a great addition to the parasol protectorate series. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
A laugh-out-loud funny, yet really quite gripping story of a young Victorian lady who is sent to finishing school to stop her from being a tomboy. Unfortunately for her mother this turns out to be the wrong sort of “finishing” - it's a school for young spies and assassins. Of course a mystery is stumbled across and much adventure is had by all.
Best enjoyed with a nice pot of tea.
I adored this book, thank you Lady Carriger! You are a lady and scholar!
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.
