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Bezig met laden... A School for Unusual Girlsdoor Kathleen Baldwin
  
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  foggidawn | Oct 18, 2022 |   fernandie | Sep 15, 2022 | The Regency setting was scrubbed of all its idiosyncrasy, presumably for the ease of the modern reader. The heroine, supposedly scientifically savvy and highly logical, found herself prey to the emotional manipulations of every single person around her—which I might have appreciated as a character flaw if the character'd had the remotest notion that she possessed said flaw. The romance took two people with a genuine attraction and interest in one another and mashed them into unconvincing instalove. And the ladies of Stranje House, who had every opportunity to connect meaningfully with the heroine, remained at arm's-length for the sake of what I assume the author thought was dramatic tension—secrets! sneakiness! we can't have sisterhood when there are so many sneaky, sneaky secrets! But YA Regency alternate histories aren't exactly thick on the ground, and I have definitely read worse, so I might eventually give the rest of the books in the series a try. (  ) slimikin | Mar 27, 2022 | I enjoyed the story, a mixture of thriller, mystery and romance, with some likeable characters and I found it very easy to read. (  ) Vesper1931 | Jul 29, 2021 | ) ca.bookwyrm | May 18, 2020 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"A School for Unusual Girls is the first captivating installment in the Stranje House series for young adults by award-winning author Kathleen Baldwin. #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot calls this romantic Regency adventure "completely original and totally engrossing." 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 the girls 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... A School for Unusual Girls is a great next read for fans of Gail Carriger's Finishing School series and Robin LaFevers' His Fair Assassin series"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
LibraryThing-AuteurKathleen Baldwin is een LibraryThing auteur: een auteur die zijn persoonlijke bibliotheek toont op LibraryThing. Actuele discussiesGeenPopulaire omslagen
 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.62)
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I love the premise of this story, but it never came together for me. Part of it was the rushed timeline: no sooner did Georgie arrive at the school than she was immediately pressed into perfecting the invisible ink recipe that got her sent there (after an unfortunate explosion in her father's stables). Within days, she's off to avert war, and I never felt like we got a good feel for the school, nor was there time to develop relationships -- either the ones between the students, or the insta-love between Georgie and a young man conveniently on site. To top it off, the writing is very purple, downright florid in places. I could look past a little of that, given the nature of the book, but it felt over-the-top to me. This is the first book in a series, but I won't be going on with it. (