![]() ![]() (Update: Got the audio! These books are good, but the audiobooks are absolute treasures!) However, Quirk’s narration is so good I plan on listening to the entire thing again once I top the holds queue for the audiobook. ![]() Too impatient to wait for my library to get in the audiobook, I snatched up a paper copy Manners and Mutiny as soon as it was available. I listened to the first three volumes as audiobooks, narrated by the excellent Moira Quirk, who brings the accents, characters, and lively dialogue to life. Truthfully, this is as much a review of the Finishing School series as Manners and Mutiny, the fourth and final volume thereof. And of course, she has unfinished business with Soap, the Sootie turned werewolf, and Lord Felix Mersey, evil genius and son of a Pickleman. Meanwhile, the Pickleman plot involving the new crystalline frequencer valves could come to fruition at any time, and Sophronia must be ready, since neither her teachers nor anyone else is prepared to believe her about what she thinks they have planned. ![]() In a bargain to save Soap’s life, she bartered her post-graduation contract to the Dewan, but it seems that he isn’t content to wait for her to finish school. Sophronia Temminnick has her plate full as she enters her final year at Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing School where, in addition to manners and charms, she has also been receiving a first-class education in espionage. They disagreed upon the subjects of politics, supernatural acceptance, techniques of instruction, and teatime provisions. There existed no little animosity between the two schools. “Thus the young ladies, outfitted in each other’s finest-and each other’s personalities-descended upon Bunson and Lacroix’s Boys’ Polytechnique for a winter ball a few weeks later. ![]()
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