The Finishing School Series is set in the same world as The Parasol Protectorate series, only 25 years earlier, and features a finishing academy located in a giant caterpillar-like dirigible floating over Dartmoor...
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.
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 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.
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This cover is GORGEOUS!
ReplyDeleteI like the synopsis too!
I know! It's freakin purple and gorg. lol
Deletethats an amazing cover
ReplyDeleteI had no idea that Gail was writing a prequel series the Parasol Protectorate! That's so cool! :) Ever since I read Cassie Clare's Infernal Devices series, I've been really into prequels AND steampunk books, so this really sounds like the best of both worlds. And the cover for this book is really, really gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteAwesome pick for your WOW this week, Faye! :) I definitely need to catch up on Gail's books!
I've been getting into Steampunk myself. I think anyone whose read Cassie Clare's books would make them a fan of steampunk! lol
DeleteI wonder if you should read Gail's other books before reading this one. I really want to read her books.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read her other books either, when they first came out I thought they were YA! but there adult. I'm probably going to read them anyway! lol
DeleteOMG! That's the cover?! Wow! I met Gail Carriger last month and she was telling us all about this series. Looks awesome.
ReplyDeleteAny spoilers?!?! lol Super Excited for this one hehe
DeleteI haven't read any of her books but they always sound like such fun reads. It sounds like this one will be too.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds great! I added it to my wishlist. I haven't read any of her other books but they have been on my tbr list.
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