ETIQUETTE AND ESPIONAGE by Gail Carriger

Book 1: FINISHING SCHOOL SERIES
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 the 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.

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Teenagers?Yes
Adults?No

Comments: I found this book to be laugh out loud funny in some spots. It had a decent plot of finishing school for special girls in that time-period. I must say I'm not into steam punk but I at least finished this one. It was well written. I did like the characters. I just don't find all the steam/advanced mechanics interesting. However it was very clean and funny.

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