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Title: Etiquette and Espionage
Subtitle: Finishing School, Book 1
Author: Gail Carriger
Narrator: Moira Quirk
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
Language: English
Release date: 02-05-13
Publisher: Hachette Audio UK
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 27 votes
Genres: Teens, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Publisher's Summary:
It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to finishing school.
Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. 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. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped.
At Mademoiselle Geraldine's young ladies learn to finish...everything. 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. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year's education.
Members Reviews:
loved it
Absolutely loved the story. The characters are fantastic and energetic. well worth a listen to.
Just plain charming.
Where does Etiquette and Espionage rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?
This book has and interesting premise mixed with a great bunch of MC's and put in a surprising time period. This mix adds up to a delightful read that demands you read the rest of the series asap.
Best setting ever for fabulous fun!
Would you consider the audio edition of Etiquette and Espionage to be better than the print version?
I have both and love then equally. The story is a fast paced, fun action orientated journey and the print version allowed me to whip through it! The audio edition let me saviour the vivid descriptions, the sassy comebacks and generally enjoy the story at a more leisurely pace
Who was your favorite character and why?
I love Sighead Maccon but probably because she is a character that is part of the Parasol Protectorate. Genevieve is simply delightful and Sophronia is a brilliant lead lady. In essence, I LOVE all of them *blush*
Which character as performed by Moira Quirk was your favorite?
Genevieve, definitely Genevieve
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
School has never been such fun!
Any additional comments?
Read this book, it's awesome!
Great story, well read
What did you like most about Etiquette and Espionage?
Etiquette & Espionage is an almost prequel to Gail Carriger's other books & the appearances of some of the characters from that series - in much younger incarnations - is a lot of fun and perhaps the easiest to explain part of what I liked about the book (without giving away any spoilers).
Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
This is one of those books where when you have finished it you want to be back in the world so much that you start the book all over again just so that you don't have to go back to reality...I wish I was joking. I must have read & listened to it move than almost any other book.
Any additional comments?
This is one of my mist listened to books on Audible, the narration is excellent & it is very soothing despite being action packed the whole way through.
A great start to a new series
As a fan of the Parasol protectorate books, I was sceptical about a new series by Gail Carriger for younger readers/listeners.
