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Audiobook: Finishing School Series Author: Gail Carriger Read by: Moira Quirk Genre: YA, Steampunk, Delightful! I know I've talked about this YA Steampunk series before ... but I finished the last book in the series and I'm excited to recommend them. These books, and Carriger as an author, just fits into my book-genre wheelhouse. There's action with a tiny bit of romance and a lot of Victorian-era charm and mischief. Sophronia is an excellent heroine of the series, as she's smart and funny yet still misses some things the reader finds rather obvious. And her band of friends are just as fantastic and well-rounded. In this story, her teacher's secrets are revealed and her school explodes. And she finally comes clean about her feelings for Soap. And let's not forget the end of the Picklemen. The audiobook is especially delightful, because the Moira Quirk, the narrator, does such an excellent job at all the accents. Victorian England would have been m...

If your not aware Steampunk is a genre of book that takes the Victorian age and adds steam powered machines and ... hmmm... that definition isn't right, let me pull from Wikipedia: Steampunk   refers to a subgenre of science fiction and sometimes fantasy that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery. I've read a bunch of these novels and there are usually filled with action/adventure, historical events slightly-altered and imaginatively cool machines. Philip Reeve has written a lot in this genre, including the books that pulled me in: the Fever Crumb series . (Don't get me started on how hard I fell for Fever.) Another series to check out is  Leviathan by Scott Westerfield . It's nonstop action, with sprinkle of a young romance. And my favorite word, perspicacious, was used often in this series. The term "boffins" comes in close second. And I am waiting on the third audiobook from ...