Waistcoats & Weaponry

Gail Carriger

Nov 2014 · Sold by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

About this eBook

Class is back in session in this glorious steampunk series by bestselling author Gail Carriger.

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. Such a fashionable choice of weapon comes in handy when Sophronia, her best friend Dimity, sweet sootie Soap, and the charming Lord Felix Mersey hijack a suspiciously empty train to return their chum Sidheag to her werewolf pack in Scotland. But when Sophronia discovers they are being trailed by a dirigible of Picklemen and flywaymen, she unearths a plot that threatens to throw all of London into chaos. With her friends in mortal danger, Sophronia must sacrifice what she holds most dear--her freedom.

Gather your poison, your steel-tipped quill, and the rest of your school supplies and join Mademoiselle Geraldine's proper young killing machines in the third rousing installment in the New York Times bestselling Finishing School series.

Ratings and reviews

The Finishing School series is incredibly fun. This installment is a much more straightforward adventure, favoring action over intrigue. It has a lot of references to the prior books in the series and to the Parasol Protectorate.

I can not wait for the next installment!!!! This author knows exactly what her readers want! But the wait is driving me insane!!

I was hooked from the first page to the last.

About the author

New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger writes to cope with being raised in obscurity by an expatriate Brit and an incurable curmudgeon. She escaped small town life and inadvertently acquired several degrees in Higher Learning. Ms. Carriger then traveled the historic cities of Europe, subsisting entirely on biscuits secreted in her handbag. She resides in the Colonies, surrounded by fantastic shoes, where she insists on tea imported from London.