{ARC Review} Curtsies and Conspiracies by Gail Carriger

Series: Finishing School #2

Publication date: November 4, 2013

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

ISBN-13: 9780316190114

Synopsis

Not all finishing schools are the same, especially Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality where the young ladies are not only thought the proper way to act in society but they are also instructed and encouraged in the arts of espionage, diversion and the difference between cooking for 4 and poison for two.

Sophronia has find herself quiet comfortable with this unexpected finishing school and after proving to herself that this is the place she has to be and with suspicious and unusual behaviors occurring on the school Sophronia is not a minute late to inspect what is happening.

With someone after her best friend, a conspiracy is a foot and hands on the job of breaking a reputation Soprhonia might have her hands in more that she can chew, but she must learn to be careful with the games she plays.

 Review

Curtsies & Conspiracies is the second book in the Finishing School by Gail Carriger where we find Sophronia a girl that wasn’t really meant for the average Victorian lifestyle her family was pushing on her and how on a twist of fate she ends up in a finishing school that is more then she could have expected.

As Etiquette & Espionage, this book is enriched by the secondary characters to the point that I think that at least one of them deserves her own book. The mix of new characters and the collision with the old ones was brilliant, although at one point I think there was some inside joke when they introduced some of the, I will have to read Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate to make sure there aren’t some character from that series popping up here.

Compared to the first book, I feel that danger and the time where Sophronia and her friends start taking action comes sooner in this book, making it move at a faster pace then Etiquette and Espionage.

This book is more set right now into living the moment and in a one conspiracy at a time at a time where I suspect everything will start tying up, there is no main villain from the beginning there is no Voldemort, no corrupt government to overthrow or anything that sets a specific group as the main evil doer.

We are all experiencing this world one book at a time trying to see behind the masks that each group hides behind, and to hopefully get to see their true intentions.

I would like to do a Fangirling on post of this book once it has been published so that we can all talk about this series in an uncensored matter full of theories and spoilers, is anyone game?

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