Waistcoats & Weaponry (2014) (Orbit)Gail Carriger
Grade: A
Genre: steampunk / young adult
Source: own
Finishing School: (1) Etiquette & Espionage, (2) Curtsies & Conspiracies, (3) Waistcoats & Weaponry
Young adult RBC 2014: A book set in another world
At Mademoiselle Geraldine’s
Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality, Sophronia Temminick and her
friends are trying to finish their education in espionage to the best of their
abilities (i.e. by flaunting the rules as much as possible), but school isn’t
quite the same as it was. After an experiment gone wrong, their vampire teacher
Professor Braithwope has gone a little loopy in the head, Sophronia’s friend
and resident scientific and technology whiz Vieve has sneaked off under the
guise of a boy to get her own education at Bunson’s School for Evil Geniuses,
and despite the fact that they’ve yet to learn the fine art of seduction
techniques, Sophronia continues to receive (not wholly unwanted) advances from
two wholly unsuitable suitors: Lord Felix Mersey, beautiful peer but
unforgiveably, son of a Pickleman, and Soap, sweet sootie from the Academy’s
engine room. Fortunately, Sophronia has now found her deadly weapon of choice:
the steel-tipped fan and is eager to get as much practice as she can –
including thinking of new places to hide one about her person.
