Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Waiting On Wednesday: July 4th, 2012


Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill of Breaking the Spine where book bloggers devote a post to an upcoming book release they are particularly looking forward to reading.


Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School #1) by Gail Carriger 

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. Temminnic...
moreIt'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.

First in a four book YA series set 25 years before the Parasol Protectorate but in the same universe.

Hardcover, 320 pages
Expected publication: February 5th 2013 by Little Brown and Company (first published February 1st 2013)

7 comments:

  1. Firstly, I TOTALLY LOVE this cover. Secondly, I've never read anything on finishing school(especially the ones full of etiquettes) so I'm TOTALLY looking forward to this. Awesome pick! :D

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  2. Ooh, love it.The cover does look amazing and the book sounds awesome too :)
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  3. Sounds and looks awesome. Thank you for sharing it.

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  4. Yay! This one sounds like so much fun!! I mean who doesn't love a school that teaches you to be a proper lady AND assassin?! <3 the cover too.
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  5. This does sound interesting!
    Thanks for sharing,
    Dani
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