Plot Summary
Sophronia has been attending Miss Geraldine's Finishing School for six months now and is doing splendidly, in fact she is at the top of her class! During her six month review Sophronia discovers a device that looks very much like the communication device she retrieved for the school months earlier, only this version is much smaller. Ever aware of what might turn out to be valuable information, Sophronia pockets it and takes it to her friend Vieve, a precocious ten year old inventor and niece of Professor Lefoux. School is further complicated by the arrival of several guest students from Bunson's Academy for Boys and several attempted kidnappings of Sophronia's friend Dimity and her brother Pillover.. Once again Sophronia much use all her skills as an intelligencer to save her friends, her professors, and her school from a malicious vampire hive and the ever villainous Picklemen.
Critical Review
It is rare for a sequel to be as entertaining and as engaging as the original, but Carriger has a knack for keeping the interest of her readers throughout a series. Curtsies and Conspiracies is a clever and intriguing, steampunk spy story. Sophronia is a wonderful heroine, at once intelligent and loyal to her friends, however, in Curtsies and Conspriacies, Sophronia will be tested in new ways while keeping of a promise to a friend. While it is the second in the Finishing School Series, it could easily be read as a stand alone. Old fans of Carriger will be delighted with continued appearances from character from Carriger's previous series The Parasol Protectorate, including a cameo from everyone's favorite dandy vampire, Lord Akeldama.
Genre
Science Fiction
Historical Fiction
Steampunk
Reading/Interest Level
Grades 7 and up
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The Gallagher Girls Series by Ally Carter
The Palace of Spies by Sarah Zettel
Author's Website
http://gailcarriger.com/
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