No one suspected what - or who - they would find aboard that suspiciously empty train. Such a fashionable choice of weapon comes in handy when Sophronia, her best friend Dimity, sweet sootie Soap, and the charming Lord Felix Mersey stow away on a train to return their classmate Sidheag to her werewolf pack in Scotland.

Sophronia continues her second year at finishing school in style-with a steel-bladed fan secreted in the folds of her ball gown, of course. It’s well worth reading, if only for all the laughs…and the massive changes that occur in everyone’s lives.

I LOVE that Dimity speaks up for Soap and admires his skin color! Sophronia is rather surprised as well, lol. What-ho! The prototype from Etiquette & Espionage, 1, plays a part in this. I did appreciate getting a back history on why a Lady Kingair is in charge of the Kingair Pack in The Parasol Protectorate. And, well, I think I was also very uncomfortable with Sophronia discovering what a hypocrite she is. Intellectually, I understood Sidheag’s concerns, but the emotional aspect of her worries didn’t grab me nor did Carriger help me understand how this was so important to her. What dropped my rating for Waistcoats & Weaponry was Sidheag’s insistence on keeping the Kingair Pack intact. Although this was considered quite uncouth, Sophronia gathered, once one left Eton.” “Some gentlemen, her brothers had whispered, even did it with each other. It certainly makes me grateful for America’s relatively “class-less” society.Ĭarriger cracked me up with the *eyebrow waggle* seduction scene in the cart, lol. It also gets a bit nasty with Sophronia discovering some unsavory aspects to her thinking when Soap makes some overtures.

My TakeĬarriger does enjoy poking fun at Victorian society and goes in-depth to explore sex education, ahem, in terms of seduction. This is a prequel series that takes place twenty-five years before Carriger’s The Parasol Protectorate. Third in the Finishing School steampunk series for young adults and revolving around Sophronia Temminnick and her friends and takes place in January 1853. Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Heartless, Timeless, Etiquette & Espionage, Curtsies & Conspiracies, Manners & Mutiny, Soulless, Changeless, Blameless, Prudence, Imprudence, Competence, Reticence

Steampunk in Hardcover edition that was published by Little Brown Books for Young Readers on Novemand has 298 pages. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review.

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