YA Steampunk

 Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger 

I really wanted to like this book; the title is so cute, but I just didn't. I didn't realize it was steampunk when I started reading it and I was never really able to immerse myself in that. Sophronia gets sent to a finishing school, except it's not just a finishing school; it's also a spy school, and she's surprisingly good at it. The person that was sent to pick her up was not the Headmistress, but one of the older girls who was supposed to be on a dual mission: pick up two students and a prototype, but while she achieved the first they got ambushed for the prototype and the older girl handled it poorly so she got demoted. She had also already hidden the prototype; she was planning on double crossing the school for money and a rich husband, but we didn't find that out until the end of the book. Sophronia makes friends, helps her classmates, and excels at school. She also foils the exchange and recovers the prototype and returns to school at the end of the book. While there were parts of the book that were entertaining, it was not enough to make me continue on with the series.