Today I'm linking up with Carole from Carole's Random Life of Books for Books from the Backlog. I really enjoy the chance to feature a book that's been hiding in the piles of books for far too long!
Goodreads: Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger
Blurb: 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 a great trial to her poor mother. 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. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.
But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies learn to finish...everything. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but they also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage--in the politest possible ways, of course. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year's education.
Why It Needs to Come Off the Shelf: I was flipping through my Audible Library and was shocked to see this. I was so excited to get it but then never got around to reading it.
I've seen this one quite often but I have not read it.
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I loved Carriger's Soulless series, but never quite got into this one. This book does sound fun though. :D
ReplyDeleteI don't usually read this genre but it does sound like a good one.
ReplyDeleteA lot of bloggers I am acquainted with loved this book. 📘
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