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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 |
Kathleen Baldwin
Hardcover | Pages: 352 pages Rating: 3.87 | 3696 Users | 705 Reviews
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| Title | : | A School for Unusual Girls (Stranje House #1) |
| Author | : | Kathleen Baldwin |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 352 pages |
| Published | : | May 19th 2015 by Tor Teen |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Romance. Fantasy |
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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…Rating Of Books A School for Unusual Girls (Stranje House #1)
Ratings: 3.87 From 3696 Users | 705 ReviewsDiscuss Of Books A School for Unusual Girls (Stranje House #1)
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 girlThis amazing author included Australia in her giveaway. See? It's not that difficult. Other best selling authors should follow her example!Wish me luck!
At a little over 20%, I still have no idea why I'd want to read this story. The protagonist, Georgie, is supposedly smart, but she has yet to do anything that wasn't either emotional, haphazard, or outright dumb. But the thing that bothered me enough to finally put it down is that it has been nothing but a string of random events that aren't tied together by anything resembling a story. I finally lost interest when she dropped down a trapdoor while fleeing(!) in a hidden passage, in the dark,
This book was made for me! I love everything about England and the Regency era. It had it all. Humor, intrigue, love, romance...everything!!Georgie is the main character and she is a really smart girl, except when it comes to anything social ( which is so important for women in Regency England). So her parents send her to Ms. Stranje's School for Unusal Girls. Her parents hope that this school will whip her into the proper society women she is supposed to be so she can get married. But this
3.5 starsIve been eagerly anticipating A School for Unusual Girls ever since I saw that cover and the Meg Cabot blurb. Everything about it screamed Christina-catnip, and the cover did not lie. A School for Unusual Girls was a delight from start to finish. If you like historical fiction about brilliant young ladies and their ships, then this, my friends, is for you.You can count on me to be one hundred percent pro historical fiction about incredibly smart girls training for work as spies. Like,
I don't give out 5 stars very often, but I adored this book. It's Ally Carter's Gallagher Girls series meets Jane Austen era Regency Romance. The girls were smart and cunning and used their outsider status to the benefit of King and Country (and themselves!). And what romantic wouldn't adore Sebastian?I was provided a copy of the ARC for this book from NetGalley. I cannot wait for the next book in the series to come out.
I see a lot of "this is NOT what I expected" reviews from other reviewers, and I just feel compelled to mention that it was exactly what I expected it to be. Of course I have the small advantage of having read one of Kathleen Baldwin's regular historical romances recently. It's not the Finishing School series. It's also not meant to be, although they do share some similarities. Georgiana is dragged off to a reformatory finishing school by her parents after one of her scientific experiments sets
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