Finishing School: Etiquette & Espionage (Series #1) (Hardcover)

from beserene

Gail Carriger never fails to make me laugh. This, her first YA novel and the first in a new "steampunk lite" series set in the Parasol Protectorate universe, is no exception. There are delightful things afoot here, both for those who have read her other books and for newcomers. First, for old han...

from AgneJakubauskaite

WHAT IS IT ABOUT? "Etiquette & Espionage" by Gail Carriger is the first installment in the young adult fiction series Finishing School. To everyone's disappointment, fourteen-year-old Sophronia Angelina Temminnick is everything but a lady: she climbs trees, dismantles machines, eavesdrops on gues...

from Andibook

Set in a Victorian steampunk era, the Finishing School series follows the rambunctious Sophronia as she's whisked away Hogwarts-style to Mademoiselle Geraldine's finishing school... except it doesn't seem to be a normal finishing school. She meets a variety of friends, learns skills like eyelash-...

from Andibook

Set in a Victorian steampunk era, the Finishing School series follows the rambunctious Sophronia as she's whisked away Hogwarts-style to Mademoiselle Geraldine's finishing school... except it doesn't seem to be a normal finishing school. She meets a variety of friends, learns skills like eyelash-...

from hnau

Sophronia Timminick is a rather ... active girl. After accidentally custardizing a visitor, her parents send her to Mme. Geraldines's, a finnishing school floating above Dartmoor. Sophronia soon starts to wonder what she is really being trained to be: assassin or spy? These often hilarious books ...