Showing posts with label gail carriger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gail carriger. Show all posts

Thursday, 1 January 2015

YA Books To Look Out For In 2015

There are some amazing books coming out this year in the YA world so I thought I'd highlight a few I can't wait to get my hands on :)

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Saturday, 23 November 2013

Book Haul #52


Stacking the Shelves is a weekly event hosted on Tynga's Reviews and Letterbox Love is a UK edition hosted by Narratively Speaking. Here we can share what new books we've picked up this past week. There are also lots of other 'book haul' memes out there for you to choose from!

I didn't think I'd be posting a book haul this week as I was sure I wasn't buying anything before I went away but I forgot about my pre-order of The Fiery Heart, then I thought I'd pick up a copy of Curtsies & Conspiracies so I can finally read Etiquette & Espionage and the icing on the cake? Going to see Susan Ee at Waterstones Piccadilly on Thursday! Although I have Angelfall on my Kindle I picked up a paperback copy and obviously couldn't leave without buying a copy of World After. My one high point of the week is that I requested nothing from Netgalley or Edelweiss therefore not destroying all my hard work during Netgalley November :) I also had a lovely email from Livia Blackburne, author of Midnight Thief (due out from Disney-Hyperion in July 2014), asking if I'd like to review the prequel Poison Dance. Naturally I said yes...

Bought

Angelfall - Susan Ee

World After - Susan Ee

The Windvale Sprites - Mackenzie Crook

The Fiery Heart - Richelle Mead

Curtsies & Conspiracies - Gail Carriger

 Kindle



Ember - Kristen Callihan
 From the author



Poison Dance - Livia Blackburne
What did you get this week?



Wednesday, 5 September 2012

Waiting On Wednesday #9 - Etiquette & Espionage





Waiting On Wednesday, where we put the spotlight on upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating, is hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine

I orderd this one long before the cover was released, the author is on my 'auto-buy' list and I loved the title!




Ettiquette & Espionage - Finishing School #1
Gail Carriger
Little Brown & Company
978-0316190084
February 13 2012 

"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 the bane of her mother's existence. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper etiquette at tea--and god forbid anyone see her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. She enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.

But little do Sophronia or her mother know that this is a school where ingenious young girls learn to finish, all right--but it's a different kind of finishing. Mademoiselle Geraldine's certainly trains young ladies in the finer arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also in the other kinds of finishing: the fine arts of death, diversion, deceit, espionage, and the modern weaponries. Sophronia and her friends are going to have a rousing first year at school."
- Goodreads


This is the US hardcover, as of yet there is no cover for the UK paperback but will post it when there is! I'm hoping it's the same gorgeous cover but as I've pre-ordered the one above it doesn't matter to me. This new series is set in the same universe as Ms. Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series but events take place 25 years before.

What's your WoW this week?

 
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