I think what really draws me in, time after time to Carriger's novels is the world she's created. like Carriger is setting up the next book rather than allowing this book to be its own fully fleshed out storyline. I liked the plotting in this book, even though it's just a bit flimsy. Set in the same world as the Parasol Protectorate, this YA series debut is filled with all the saucy adventure and droll humor Gail's legions of fans have come to adore. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year's education. 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.
At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies learn to finish.everything. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.īut Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. 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. Welcome to Finishing School.įourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly.
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