Waiting On Wednesday (18)



Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly blog post hosted by Breaking The Spine. For this week's Waiting On Wednesday I chose *drumroll* Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger



Expected Publication: February 5,2013


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.

Publisher: Little Brown Company
ISBN: 031619008X (ISBN13: 9780316190084)
Goodreads Page: Click Here


Why Am I Waiting?

I love the idea of combining very prim and proper ladies with the deadly art of espionage. I also am a total cover whore and really can't wait to have this pretty one on my shelf.

That wraps up my Waiting on Wednesday, leave me the link to yours so I can check it out as well! Have you heard of this book before? Do you like Steam Punk style stories? Let me Know In The Comments Below! I love reading your responses.

Comments

  1. I want this one, too! I haven't read any of her other novels, but I want to. :) Great pick! I love finishing schools and espionage! :D

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