Including Manners and Mutiny and the whole Finishing School series gives your collection breadth by including steampunk literature, which is growing in popularity.
It made ’s best list, and was a Publishers Weekly Best Book, IndieBound Notable, Locus Recommended Read, and a Finalist for the 2009 PEARL Award. Sherman, 1992, etc.), a vivid evocation of a. Her debut novel, Soulless, won the ALA’s Alex Award and was nominated for Compton Crook, Locus Awards, and the Prix des Imaginales (France). THE PETTICOAT AFFAIR: Manners, Sex, and Mutiny in Andrew Jacksons White House User Review - Kirkus From Marszalek (History/Mississippi State Univ.
They have been published in eighteen different languages, made the USA Today and Locus lists multiple times, and the New York Times list thirteen times (on seven different lists: Mass Market, Hardcover, eBook, Combined Print & eBook, Young Adult, Children’s Series, and Manga at #1). Campbell Award, and received the Steampunk Chronicle’s Reader’s Choice Award in YA, the Prix Julia Verlanger and Elbakin Award from French readers, and a Starburner Award in Literature for her “contributions to the steampunk community.”Miss Carriger’s novels are urbane fantasies mixed with steampunk comedies of manners. Will Sophronia be able to deduce correctly, kill discreetly, and defend stoically, all while remaining perfectly coiffed? Carriger’s works are truly unique, with no other authors writing the same fantasy-steampunk-aristocracy mash up as well as she does. Carriger also takes pains to show that the rules of society can be just as useful for her characters when strategically obeyed, as when they are broken. Sophronia is plucked from her country aristocratic life style to be trained as a spy and assassin. Carriger takes these out of sync characters and proves that there are situations that need just their sort of rebellion. The main character in the Finishing School series, Sophronia, is strong willed, and curious, exactly how a girl shouldn’t be. Where Carriger really shines is her juxtaposition of the Victorian Era ideals of femininity, proprietary, and gender roles and her strong willed and feisty main characters. Her description of the dress, style, and use of Victorian English immerses readers in her world. Carriger’s world is well researched, accurate in all things Victorian that are non-steampunk and non-paranormal. Her books cannot be considered science fiction steampunk because of the presence of werewolves, vampires, and ghosts, so Carriger calls her unique style fantasy steampunk. All of Carriger’s novels are set in an alternate, Victorian england that combines true steampunk and the paranormal. Gail Carriger is a master of combining Victorian language and attitudes, with humor and resistant female characters to create light, enjoyable tales of misadventure. Sophronia will have to be ready to defend her friends, and determine who is on her side, while remaining both dramatic, and fashionable at all times. In her final year at school, Sophronia will have to put her sleuthing and killing skills to the test as a conspiracy involving the Picklemen secret society, the werewolves, and the vampires is growing more and more alarming. The mysterious part is that Madame Geraldine's is not a school where young women learn to integrate into society as everyone assumes, but is instead a finishing school, as in a school where young ladies are turned into fashionable spies and assassins. In an England where vampires and werewolves are integrated into the highest levels of society, Sophronia has spent the last three years at Mademoiselle Geraldine's School for Young Ladies of Quality, a mysterious finishing school that floats over the moor on a massive dirigible. This series is funny, emotional, engaging.Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers © 2016 I absolutely recommend this book if you've been reading the Finishing School series - and if you haven't, go back to book 1 and start there. And now I want to re-read the Parasol Protectorate all the more. I loved how this book brought everything together in a neat package, bringing the series to a satisfying close. There's fashion, there's fantastic gadgets and weapons, there's all the characters we've come to love, hate and love-hate through the three earlier books in the series. Why shouldn't spies communicate with fans and pillow placements? This book leverages some of the over-the-top elements of 19th century England high society, taking them to ever more delightful extremes. One of the best parts of the Finishing School series is how much it embraces the slightly nonsensical with such gusto. I love this series, and I held onto this book, waiting to read it because I wanted to really savor the experience.
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