missingvolume | #21 A School for Unusual Girls by Kathleen Baldwin

This YA book is starts with Georgiana being dumped off at a girls school with a reputation of reforming girls that don’t fit into society’s role during the Regency period. Of course the school isn’t what it appears to be once Georgiana’s stumbles around and finds a hidden passage while trying to escape. The premise sounded interesting but it took far too long for anyone to sit her down and explain what they really do at the school. The main reason they are so interested in having her there is she seems to be a outstanding chemist even if she burned down her parent’s barn while trying to make invisible ink. She is given the task of trying to come up with the ink in just a few days before a large conference in Vienna to deal with the problem of Napoleon, who has just been banished to Elba. Everything in this story just goes so fast along with building personal relationships. I wanted to like this book but having read some other series recently that also dealt with unusual finishing schools for girls this didn’t have the same charm as the other books. An entertaining enough read but I don’t think I’ll bother to read the next one.

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Netgalley.