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| Title | : | A School for Unusual Girls (Stranje House #1) |
| Author | : | Kathleen Baldwin |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 352 pages |
| Published | : | May 19th 2015 by Tor Teen |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Romance. Fantasy |
Kathleen Baldwin
Hardcover | Pages: 352 pages Rating: 3.87 | 3696 Users | 705 Reviews
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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…
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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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Ratings: 3.87 From 3696 Users | 705 ReviewsRate Appertaining To Books A School for Unusual Girls (Stranje House #1)
16-year-old Georgiana Fitzwilliam is a hopeless case, at least as far as her parents are concerned. Shed far rather study chemistry and test the laws of physics than go to debutante balls and try to catch a husband -- an attitude which does not go over well in 1814 England. Just as Napoleon has been exiled from France, Georgiana is exiled to Stranje House, a school which promises to whip such incorrigible girls into a condition suitable for return to polite society. But of course the school is aAs with almost all other Historical Fiction, A School for Unusual Girls is a book where you either love it or you don't. There is no in between. I have recently found a love for Historical Fiction but I have come across a few books that I did not like one bit. Luckily, I loved this book. Georgiana was perfect. She was smart and funny and didn't let things like ballgowns and gossip change her. I loved that she didn't let society define her. She knew the things she enjoyed weren't normal for a
Reviewed by: Rabid ReadsGeorgiana Fitzwilliam (YES, just like Fitzwilliam Darcy) is an unusual girl.She likes science. *shudders delicately* She also has red hair and freckles in a society that abhors both. But it's her love of experiments that is perceived to be the greater of evils . . . *whispers* Well bred young ladies DO NOT science. And when her father's stable and a quarter of a neighboring orchard burns to ash as a direct result of one of said experiments, her parents have had enough.
DNF @ 18%I just couldn't do it. This book was just so slow and boring. Not what I expected AT ALL.
I received an advance copy of this book for review through Netgalley. Rarely have I ever so deeply regretted requesting a book.The story itself does have some charm. Georgie is a frightfully intelligent (if also clueless) teenager. She gets into scrapes all the time where she tests a theory without properly considering all of the angles (such as when she made her own glider). After having caused a devastating fire with one her experiments, her family drops her off at the Stranje School for
A School for Unusual Girls by Kathleen Baldwin was a YA historical fiction novel I was curious to read as soon as I heard about it. The idea of a book about a group of girls in a school learning everything they would ever need to be a spy for the good of England? Now that had me intrigued from the start! I was quite happy to find everything I expected to be satisfied in reading the novel.What I was very happy to find out about this novel was that it was historically accurate, as far as my own
3.65 stars! Mini review--dead tired, proper one tomorrow.Thank you Netgalley for the advanced copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.Hmph for someone who began this book with way too many expectations then disappointment at the beginning then excitment towards the end I surprise myself in realising right at the end of the book that I really want more.I had a lot of issues with this book which I'm going to bring down to pacing for the moment and also maintaining a regency-formal
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