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Curtsies & Conspiracies by Gail Carriger
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really liked it
bookshelves: fantasy-paranormal, scifi-steampunk, fantasy-alt-history, series, silly

Pretty much the same thing as the first one.

This is the cotton candy of reading. Light and fluffy, but fun. Well, considering how nasty we're increasingly realize that sugar is, I'm doing a disservice to Carriger, since her books won't harm you.

Because this is steampunk, it does somewhat fit into the category of science fiction, which I frequently read.

But toss in vampires and werewolves and preparatory boarding schools for boys, heading for "careers" as evil geniuses, or girls, as intelligencers and assassins, and you're in a very strange world. The book focuses on the girls, although the boys come in as secondary characters. Keep in mind that these are early Victorian girls, wearing corsets and multiple petticoats — and those petticoats are part of the story more often than you'd expect.

If you want some innocent* quick and silly reading, you could do a lot worse.

*If you want something a bit less innocent, the author's Parasol Protectorate series is similar, but with actual lust-laden adults, albeit with many more vampires and werewolves.
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Reading Progress

Started Reading
October 15, 2014 – Finished Reading
October 19, 2014 – Shelved
October 19, 2014 – Shelved as: fantasy-paranormal
October 19, 2014 – Shelved as: scifi-steampunk
October 19, 2014 – Shelved as: fantasy-alt-history
December 10, 2014 – Shelved as: silly
December 10, 2014 – Shelved as: series

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