Waistcoats & Weaponry

This series has certainly grown up rapidly. Nothing too intimate actually happens but there is a discussion that skirts around oral sex and some full frontal nudity. For a series that started at the high end of ‘middle grade', it's a bit shocking.

I do adore this series with its excessive use of silly long words and aversion to maintaining the status quo.

???It???s most annoying of you to order me to do something I???m going to do anyway. Now it???ll look like I???m obeying you.??? ~Miss Sophronia Temminnick

I absolutely adore Gail Carriger???s FINISHING SCHOOL series in which spunky Miss Sophronia Temminnick and her friends are being finished while they learn to finish others. For Mademoiselle Geraldine???s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality is not your usual Victorian boarding school. Unbeknownst to its headmistress, those Young Ladies of Quality are being trained to be assassins who will one day serve and protect their queen (or at least Sophronia assumes this ??? she???s not actually sure yet).

In Waistcoats & Weaponry, the third installment, the young ???ladies??? are still in their second year of school. While the academy drifts through the ether in a ... Read More: http://www.fantasyliterature.com/reviews/waistcoats-weaponry/

A wonderful romp! Highly recommend to fans of Carriger... and even if you aren't a fan just yet.