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“This is the second series from Gail Carriger. Really, any of Gail’s stuff is great, but Etiquette and Espionage was more overtly steampunk than her earlier series had been. It features a fourteen-year-old girl named Sophronia who is sent away to a finishing school, which is a lovely pun in these books: a finishing school is where you go to learn manners, and this finishing school is where you go to learn manners and to finish people off. It’s literally a school for young assassins who will enter society. They know which fork to eat with or whatever, but they also know how to stab you with it and take you out. So it’s very fun.” Read more...
Mike Perschon, Literary Scholar
