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Lately I have been reading His Fair Assassin trilogy by Robin LaFevers. I just finished both Grave Mercy & Dark Triumph, because the final volume, Mortal Heart, is out this month.About Waistcoats & Weaponry, from the publisher:
The series premise got me initially: three girls from different backgrounds are deemed daughters of death and taken in to a mysterious convent where they are trained as assassins, called death's handmaidens. Each is then sent from the convent into the politics of late 1400s Brittany, and given...[read on]
Class is back in session...Learn more about the book and author at Gail Carriger's website and blog.
Sophronia continues her second year at finishing school in style--with a steel-bladed fan secreted in the folds of her ball gown, of course. Such a fashionablechoice of weapon comes in handy when Sophronia, her best friend Dimity, sweet sootie Soap, and the charming Lord Felix Mersey stowaway on a train to return their classmate Sidheag to her werewolf pack in Scotland. No one suspected what--or who--they would find aboard that suspiciously empty train. Sophronia uncovers a plot that threatens to throw all of London into chaos and she must decide where her loyalties lie, once and for all.
Gather your poison, steel tipped quill, and the rest of your school supplies and join Mademoiselle Geraldine's proper young killing machines in the third rousing installment in the New York Times bestselling Finishing School Series by steampunk author, Gail Carriger.
My Book, The Movie: Soulless.
The Page 69 Test: Changeless.
The Page 69 Test: Waistcoats & Weaponry.
Writers Read: Gail Carriger.
--Marshal Zeringue
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