12/30/2023 0 Comments Etiquette and espionageDimity (one of the characters) has a brother whoĪttends a school for evil geniuses and whose family wants her to beĮvil but all Dimity wants to be is a lady and Sorphonia just accepts That it contained paranormal elements and some background info I felt incredibly discombobulated as I had no idea They appeared so frightening to the characters as it invoked no fear I didn't know what they did, I didn't know why Think that's the terminology) and the Pickleman and it's obviously aįrightening prospect to the characters but I felt no fear whatsoeverĪs I had no idea what role they played in the world that I wasĬurrently inhabiting. Highly unruly) but no - a werewolf appears and I'm like: Yup. Maybe she's just pretending and it's stories that were fed to her asĪ child to scare her into behaving (as her family did find her There's mentions of werewolves and vampires and I'm like, okay, I thought it was a contemporary steampunk book but then Was so confused about the world-building that took place in thisīook. That there was no actual espionage lessons and it was mainly just Looking forward to? All I got were a bunch of rich girls practisingįainting and fluttering and flirting. Weaponry lessons, where was the other spy training that I was so Was the physical training involved, where was the rest of the Look into the poisoning lessons and one lesson with a werewolf on how This time I'm thinking, where are the spy lessons? We only got brief How to cook a 5-course meal, how to flutter your eyelashes – all Like she would tell us about the lessonsīut they were just like average, ordinary lessons that you wouldĮxpect from a finishing school. Information on her lessons but simultaneously a lack Life where nothing much actually happened. I was honestly so bored by the endlessĪmounts of description on everything that occurred in Soprhonia's Had lessons and tried finding a package that an older student had Wasn't a plot in this book. Sophronia went to school, scaled decks, Would get that, seeing as it is a book centred around espionage but That, there was nothing that had my heart-racing and my eyes The end when Sophronia is trying to get the package but other than There was action in theīeginning of the book when their carriage is attacked and then at The whole entire premise of this book is so fascinating and soĮxciting but it didn't meet the high standards I had somehow Near to DNFing but the reviews were oh-so-positive and the premise, ![]() Pages wore on and I saw no indication of improvement. I wanted to love this book with aīurning, fiery passion but my heart sank lower and lower as the Pages) and I inwardly groaned when I saw I wasn't even half-way That they're not even aware of the fact that they're turning any Is never a good indication as one should be so immersed in the book I kept checking what page I was on (which Sometimes two) but with Etiquette and Espionage it was taking me two ![]() I'm not a fast reader (I read about a page a minute, Quite frankly found Etiquette and Espionage to be extremely 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 they 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. 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. 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. Source: Thank you to Penguin Books for sending me this book in exchange for an honest review! Genre: Young Adult, Middle-Grade, Spy, Steampunk Title: Etiquette & Espionage Series: Finishing School #1
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