Kathleen Baldwin
Hardcover | Pages: 352 pages Rating: 3.87 | 3696 Users | 705 Reviews
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| Original Title: | A School for Unusual Girls |
| ISBN: | 0765376008 (ISBN13: 9780765376008) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Stranje House #1 |
| Setting: | Elba, Italy |
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Welcome to Stranje House. It’s 1814. Napoleon is exiled on Elba. Europe is in shambles. Britain is at war on four fronts. And Stranje House, a School for Unusual Girls, has become one of Regency England’s dark little secrets. The daughters of the beau monde who don’t fit high society’s constrictive mold are banished to Stranje House to be reformed into marriageable young ladies. Or so their parents think. In truth, Headmistress Emma Stranje, the original unusual girl, has plans for the young ladies—plans that entangle them in the dangerous world of spies, diplomacy, and war. After accidentally setting her father’s stables on fire while performing a scientific experiment, Miss Georgiana Fitzwilliam is sent to Stranje House. But Georgie has no intention of being turned into a simpering, pudding-headed, marriageable miss. She plans to escape as soon as possible—until she meets Lord Sebastian Wyatt. Thrust together in a desperate mission to invent a new invisible ink for the English war effort, Georgie and Sebastian must find a way to work together without losing their heads—or their hearts…Define Based On Books A School for Unusual Girls (Stranje House #1)
| Title | : | A School for Unusual Girls (Stranje House #1) |
| Author | : | Kathleen Baldwin |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 352 pages |
| Published | : | May 19th 2015 by Tor Teen |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Romance. Fantasy |
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Ratings: 3.87 From 3696 Users | 705 ReviewsComment On Based On Books A School for Unusual Girls (Stranje House #1)
This book is a very strange mix and I struggled to be sure about it's target market. It's apparently targeted at a teen and YA readership ... well they may be the correct age but it is both much too young and too old for them. It's also infuriating for the type of adult who, as I do, enjoys YA usually.While it initially appears to be following in Gail Carriger's shoes (Finishing School) that series is witty, thought-provoking and challenging with a bright, well-balanced heroine. This one ...Georgiana Fitzwilliam's parents are banishing her to Miss Stranje's school for unusual girls all for the little matter of burning her father's stables and half the neighbor's orchard. Georgie resists the banishment, arguing she was only trying to find a formula for invisible ink in hopes of saving the lives of soldiers. It's too late to save her older brother Robbie but if she can prevent more families from experiencing that pain, she will. Unfortunately for Georgie, the fire was the latest in a
ARC via NetGalleyWhat could have been a cool feminist alt-history adventure for YA audiences quickly became a pathetic and overwrought romance of the worst sort. The supposed heroine, Georgie, spends the vast majority of the novel lamenting her tragic existence which is burdened with being bright (despite being frankly pretty clueless), unattractive (she has red hair?!), and unlovable (actually I pretty much agreed with this point by the end). She takes the occasional break to assume the worst
4 stars. Meaning: I really enjoyed this book but it didn't blow me away/knock my socks off. I added extra points in as the book really surprised me in what the book was about(in a good way) and it almost knocked my socks off. Everything is very interesting and there was nothing I disliked about the book! I quite enjoyed it! Because of this I bumped it to 4 stars! This book was good! I really enjoyed it. First of all there was nothing I disliked about A School for Unusual Girls. I must say that
I received an ARC copy from NetGalley in return for an honest review, which you see here.**It's no surprise that this series is being positioned as the successor to Robin LaFevers' His Fair Assassins Trilogy. A number of the essential characteristics are the same -- young women from another time (in this case Napoleonic Era Europe as opposed to medieval Brittania) get involved in politics and international intrigue, with at least a little hint of mysticism. It's got the same sort of modern girl
Oh, A School for Unusual Girls, you were made for me, taking out the Regency England, which I've only read around four or five books, tops, of them. But, everything else. The characters. The romance. The humour. The cleverness. Basically, just all of it. It is similar to The Lovegrove Legacy series, although not in plot, but in what makes the book absolutely wonderful, not that it doesn't have its flaws, because it does, but it's that type of book that I don't even care because I adored it.As
This amusing tale posits that inventive or resourceful English girls are packed off to a school to learn to be spies. The period is the Napoleonic Wars and society does not approve of girls making wise remarks, experimenting with chemicals or having outrageous adventures. So the school is seen as a corrective school by their parents but the girls actually further their experiments and train in lock picking and so on. The start is rather vague in that the new girl Georgiana is our heroine and she
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