Book Review of Etiquette & Espionage

For those who don't know I love Gail Carriger and her Parasol Protectorate. I was already touching into steampunk and she fueled the fire for me.

Loves that this is a prequel setting to the The Parasol Protectorate. I had some questions about certain people and now they are being brought to the light. Sophronia is now one of my newer favorite characters and I can't wait to see what she gets into at finishing school. I was surprised about her friends two we know too much about for those fans of the Parasol Protectorate. I cannot wait until November when the second book is released!

Taken from Goodreads-

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. Temminick 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.

Set in the same world as the Parasol Protectorate, this YA series debut is filled with all the saucy adventure and droll humor Gail Carriger's legions of fans have come to adore.