Because we all have something we're waiting for.Etiquette and Espionage
Author: Gail Carriger
Series: The Finishing School (#1)
Release Date: 13 February 2013
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 the bane of her mother's existence. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper etiquette at tea--and god forbid anyone see her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. She enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.
But little do Sophronia or her mother know that this is a school where ingenious young girls learn to finish, all right--but it's a different kind of finishing. Mademoiselle Geraldine's certainly trains young ladies in the finer arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also in the other kinds of finishing: the fine arts of death, diversion, deceit, espionage, and the modern weaponries. Sophronia and her friends are going to have a rousing first year at school.
It's no secret that I love Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series. Hell, she ordained me her number one fan via Twitter -- I'm quite in love with her characters and her plots and her writing style.
And now she's delving into YA?
Not only am I wanting this, I have it's release date programmed into my phone with a notice to preorder it a month a head of time. I want this, I want this, I want this!
But let's face it -- even if it wasn't written by the flawless Carriger, I'd be all over this. A boarding school for "death, diversion, deceit, espionage and the modern weaponries?" Who wouldn't want to read this!?
I love Alexia! So excited that the author is giving YA a try.
ReplyDeleteHaha! I know I want this one BADLY, but I don't even approach your level of fandom. Can't wait!
ReplyDeleteHoly Smokit! That looks incredible! I've never even heard of that yet! Thanks for spotlighting! I'm totally going to add that to my lists! Stop by MY WOW?
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I am in love with that cover - it really pops. I haven't read her other series, but I am excited for this one!
ReplyDeleteI didn't know her Parasol Protectorate series wasn't YA. I've seen it covered on so many YA blogs, I guess I just assumed.
ReplyDeleteThis does look incredible! I can't walk and chew gum and the same time, yet Sophronia is going to learn to curtsy and throw a knife. I am impressed.
YES, I am so excited for this series!! This is the first I'd heard the title and seen the cover and it's made me giddy. ^_^
ReplyDeleteI just ordered the first three books in the Parasol Protectorate series last week. Hopefully I'll get them Thursday. I can't wait for this book to come out. It looks amazing!
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