However, I decided to listen to this audiobook because this series had been nominated for a 2015 Audie award. Steampunk fiction is not my usual or preferred genre. I did not anticipate enjoying this book as much as I did. With ball gowns, poison, espionage, and Picklemen, this book has it all.
#ETIQUETTE AND ESPIONAGE HOW TO#
Sophronia quickly discovers this school teaches much more than how to execute a perfect curtsey. Commuting multiple h Sophronia's penchant for trouble causes her mother to ship her off to finishing school. Sophronia's penchant for trouble causes her mother to ship her off to finishing school. If it weren't for the amazing world building, and a hope that Sophronia will be more fleshed out and develop a voice of her own, I wouldn't be reading the next book, and this would be a one-star review. And an overuse of them (we're talking at least one per page) is nearly unreadable. To me, an exclamation point is lazy writing. I think the other thing that caught me is this is billed as a YA, but the plot and characters read much more like a MG book.Īnd then the final thing that makes me actually want to throw the book across the room, is the insane amounts of exclamation points. It's like she's Alexia without the dirty thoughts and in a fourteen-year-old body. But Sophronia's voice is not that of a realistic fourteen-year-old.
Sure, you can say it's the same author, and that's just her style. She may as well be Alexia for how similar their voices are and how underdeveloped of a character she is. The downer was the progag, fourteen-year-old Sophronia. She did a lot of hard work developing the school and what goes one there. The idea of a young girl going off to this Finishing School, is fun and interesting. I think what really draws me in, time after time to Carriger's novels is the world she's created. like Carriger is setting up the next book rather than allowing this book to be its own fully fleshed out storyline. I liked the plotting in this book, even though it's just a bit flimsy.
The downer was the progag, fourteen-year-old Sop Hmmm. Set in the same world as the Parasol Protectorate, this YA series debut is filled with all the saucy adventure and droll humor Gail's legions of fans have come to adore. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year's education. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but the also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage-in the politest possible ways, of course. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies learn to finish.everything. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.īut Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners-and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy.
#ETIQUETTE AND ESPIONAGE TRIAL#
Welcome to Finishing School.įourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners-and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly.
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