Title: Etiquette & Espionage
Author: Gail Carriger
Genre: Steampunk, or "Historical Fiction" according to my local library
Medium: Hardback
Acquisition: Library Book
Date Completed: January 7, 2014
Rating: ****
Review: Sophronia, the youngest daughter in the Temminnick family, is in great need of polish and refinement, and a family friend recommends Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality, despite being assaulted by a trifle during a bungled dumbwaiter spying incident. What Mrs. Temminnick doesn't realize is just what her daughter will learn at this finishing school, and in her first session Sophronia finds herself learning quadrilles, fan ettiquette, and how to only poison half of one's dinner guests. "Finishing" takes on an entirely different context in the school dedicated to teaching "Ladies of Quality" the finer points of Etiquette and Espionage.
This novel, introducing Sophronia Temminnick and Mademoiselle Geraldine's floating school, is good fun and frivolous entertainment. There are several familiar faces, albeit in very unfamiliar forms, sporting diversion, and conflict overcome by cunning and mechanicals. This series is not "The Parasol Protectorate," but holds great promise on its own, and makes for a fun start to the year.
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