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Sophronia and her series both Finish.

Manners & Mutiny (Finishing School, #4) by Gail Carriger

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This was a nice ending to the series, pretty on par with the quality of the rest of the books, so if you liked those, you’ll like this one, too. I’ve just been slightly underwhelmed with this series as a whole, so I was just slightly underwhelmed with this book in the same way. I got really excited about the ending of the third book, but she didn’t really take it anywhere super exciting, just medium exciting. I did like the last two books more than I liked the first two, so the series does have a clear and satisfying […]

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4/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:41 |

“I want a man who stays out of my way.”

Waistcoats & Weaponry (Finishing School, #3) by Gail Carriger

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All right, I liked this one quite a bit. I’m invested in the series now. But I’m still only giving this 3.5 stars, rounded up, because it shouldn’t take you two books to be emotionally invested. I should have been in like Flynn after book one. Anyway, I finished this book in a frenzy and immediately wanted the next one (which I’m not getting to until next month, sadface), so that’s a great sign. Sophronia and Co. are halfway through their second year at Madame Geraldine’s Finishing School. Sidheag receives notice that something is wrong with her pack (werewolf) and leaves school […]

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2/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:20 |

“It’s no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.”

Etiquette and Espionage (Finishing School, #1) by Gail Carriger

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This book! This is why Goodreads need to give us half stars. This is not a three star book! Three stars, for me, is like, okay I guess I liked it, grudgingly. Or maybe I liked it but there something fundamentally wrong with it. Or maybe it’s really well written but it’s just not my thing. And four stars is: I liked it a lot and it was great! Nothing to complain about, but not my favorite, would read again. And this book fits into neither of those categories. I have some issues with it that are keeping me from […]

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11/29/2018 's CBR10 Review No:144 |

Add Exploding Pastries to My List of Wanted Weapons

Manners & Mutiny (Finishing School #4) by Gail Carriger

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First, a note of thanks to crystalclear for not wanting to bash my head in for how long this book sat on my desk, unread. It is her copy and I am a bad friend for not returning it to her in a timely fashion. Beware of friends who overcommit on their reading capacity, we’re a terrible liability to your own reading. 🙂 That being said, this is the final book of the Finishing School series, a prequel of sorts to The Parasol Protectorate series (the Soulless books). It is Carriger doing what Carriger does, with her brand of humor. […]

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5/17/2016 's CBR8 Review No:33 |

A Finishing School of Covert *itchcraft and Social Wizardry

Etiquette and Espionage (Finishing School series, book 1) by Gail Carriger

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I had a harder time getting into this book as I have with other series buy the same author. I did eventually start to like the characters once they got to the school and some of the events leading up to the arrival were better explained. The encounter with flywaymen made little sense at first given that I had no idea what they were and the other characters hadn’t been especially well detailed at this early point. The explanation provided during the attack just didn’t make sense until later when I had a better idea of this particular story world. […]

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6/18/2015 's CBR7 Review No:15 |

Growing up is a dangerous thing to do

Waistcoats & Weaponry by Gail Carriger

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Waistcoats and Weaponry, the third installment of Gail Carriger’s Finishing School Series, is a bit darker and more mature than the preceding novels.  Don’t be alarmed – as in the previous books, there is still delightful dialogue and whimsical witticisms to be found on every page! We begin aboard the floating dirigible school, and we immediately feel sorry for dear Professor Braithwope.  I do hope we see more of him in the future, and that he regains more of himself!  Sidheag receives a message from home, and the news is not good.  Preshea has stepped into Monique’s evil little shoes, […]

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5/10/2015 's CBR7 Review No:4 |

“I’d rather be loyal than right.”

Curtsies & Conspiracies (Finishing School #2) by Gail Carriger

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I admit that I had no immediate plans of reading the rest of the Finishing School series by Gail Carriger when I finished Etiquette & Espionage. Sure, the book contained all of the wit and witticism one would expect from a Carriger steampunk novel, but it just didn’t grab me the same way Soulless had a few years ago. Well, my friend crystalclear had the book the second ready and waiting and dropped it off for me to read. I’m really rather glad she did. Curtsies & Conspiracies picks up almost immediately after E&E. Sophronia and her friends are in […]

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4/21/2015 's CBR7 Review No:30 |

The Start of the Finish

Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger

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Etiquette & Espionage, Gail Carriger’s first installment of her YA series set in the universe of the Parasol Protectorate, is an absolute delight.  The events take place before Soulless, and can be thoroughly enjoyed without having read the other series.  I read Soulless a few years ago, and am ashamed to admit that I don’t remember much, just the basics that werewolves and vampires are out in society, and that vampires are fabulous (which is not the main point of the book, but certain things stick with you!) When I saw that Carriger had a finishing school series, I was […]

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1/17/2015 's CBR7 Review No:1 |


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