Theyll suck my blood and make me wear only the very latest fashions. “If spunky Lady Sybil from Downton Abbey happened onto a steampunk set, she might look a lot like Sophronia Angelina Temminnick.Carriger delivers a grand mix of etiquette and espionage with a dash of humor and enough subterfuge to spring some surprises. Gail Carriger, quote from Etiquette & Espionage But I dont want to be a vampire drone. ~ Publishers Weekly, starred review ( Etiquette & Espionage) “Carriger deploys laugh-out-loud bon mots on nearly every page… Amid all the fun, the author works in commentary on race and class in a sparkling start to the Finishing School series.” Kirkus, starred review ( Etiquette & Espionage) Sophronia examined the windlass machine at the top.

The dumbwaiter disagreed with the whole idea of stopping at the ground floor, and instead kept on goingup all four stories. Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School, 1) Paperback October 8, 2013. “This genre-bender will introduce fans of Ally Carter’s Gallagher Girls and Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ The Squad to a world of mechanical maids and flying machines while bringing a spy-school romp to readers of the weightier worlds of Cassandra Clare and Scott Westerfield.” So she had pressed the dumbwaiter into the service of espionage. “.cleverly Victorian methods of espionage, witty banter, lighthearted silliness, and a ship full of intriguingly quirky people.”īooklist, starred review ( Etiquette & Espionage) Individually, they have been Locus bestsellers Goodreads Choice, Teen Choice, Locus Award, and Sakura Medal nominees received starred reviews in Publisher's Weekly and Booklist been honored as YALSA Amazing Audiobooks and received the Steampunk Chronicle’s Reader’s Choice and Elbakin Awards. The Finishing School books were all New York Times Bestsellers.

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