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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
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. It's
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'sFinishing
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.
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
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)
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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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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