How delighted was I to just happen upon this on the new bookshelf so soon after reading Finishing School #1? So delighted! This installment has all the same good stuff as the first–intelligencers, mechanimals, automated servants, dirigibles, werewolves, and vampires. Sophronia continues to be an uncannily apt intelligencer and finds herself involved in uncovering more of the vague battle her school appears to be involved in over some gadget. I felt in this one that it wasn’t too important to understand or follow all of that and good thing because it was kind of confusing. After all, what on earth is the aetherosphere? Is it the stratosphere? There seemed to be a bit more of a dip into the Parasol Protectorate world here-vampire hives and dandies in London. I really enjoy this world she has created, including Sophronia’s classmates and instructors, and look forward to the next installment!
The Last Book I Read 