Author: Kathleen Baldwin
Series: Stranje House #4
Genre: YA Historical fiction, alternate history
Release Date: September 26th, 2019
Publisher: Ink Lion Books
Source: E-galley from Rockstar Book Tours which did not influence my opinion
My rating: 5 stars
Synopsis:
Harbor for the Nightingale is the highly anticipated fourth
installment in the popular award-winning Stranje House YA series! #1
New York Times best-selling author Meg Cabot calls this romantic
Regency adventure series "completely original and totally
engrossing."
"Enticing from the first sentence."
--New York Times Sunday Book Review on A School for Unusual Girls
"Baldwin has a winning series here: her
characters are intriguing and fully rendered." --Booklist, on Refuge
for Masterminds
It's 1814. In this alternate history, Napoleon has
forced Europe to its knees, and now he plots to seize control of Britain.
Maya brings the mystery of India with her...
With her friends' lives in deadly peril, Miss
Maya Barrington, one of Miss Stranje's unusual girls, must serve as a double
agent. To do so, she gains entry into Napoleon's duplicitous game on the arm of
the enigmatic Lord Kinsworth. She can read almost everyone; not so with this
young rascal. Quick with a jest and armed with lethal charm, Kinsworth remains
just beyond her reach. Can she trust him?
With Britain's future at risk and those she
loves in deadly peril, Maya questions everything she thought she understood
about life, love, and loyalty.
Fans of genre-blending, romance, and action
will love this speculative history Regency-era novel filled with spunky
heroines, handsome young lords, and dastardly villains--fourth in the Stranje
House series. Don't miss the first three books: A School for Unusual
Girls, Exile for Dreamers, and Refuge for Masterminds
"An outstanding alternative history
series entry and a must-have for teen libraries." --School Library
Journal on Refuge for Masterminds
"This alternative history series will
appeal to fans of Gail Carriger's works and The Cecelia and Kate novels by
Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer." --School Library Journal on A
School for Unusual Girls
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My Review:
I am such a huge fan of this series and had been waiting so long for the next book to come out. I was not disappointed in this next installment in the story. In fact, it's left in such a way, that while not a cliffhanger exactly, we're still left needing to know how things will go on. Even though this is actually a bit of an alternate history, there are still those traces of actual history that make me want to go read the true story to know how exactly things did go in real life. We've still got all our usual characters, both the good guys and the bad guys. We do have a new romance this time, of course, and I really like how it played out. I love this extra sense that Maya had, but it was even more exciting when it seemed as if maybe other people had it as well, ones you might not have imagined. The royal intrigue was spot on as usual, and the action was a constant character in the story as well. As I have already said, another great chapter in the Stranje House series, and I am excited for Sera's story next!
Author: Kathleen Baldwin
Pub.
Date: May 23, 2017
Publisher: Tor Teen
Format: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook
Pages: 352
It’s 1814. Napoleon has escaped his
imprisonment on Elba. Britain is at war on four fronts. And at Stranje House, a
School for Unusual Girls, five young ladies are secretly being trained for a
world of spies, diplomacy, and war…
Napoleon’s invasion of England is underway
and someone at Stranje House is sneaking information to his spies. Lady Jane
Moore is determined to find out who it is. If anyone can discover the traitor,
it is Jane—for, according to headmistress Emma Stranje, Lady Jane is a
mastermind.
Jane doesn’t consider herself a mastermind.
It’s just that she tends to grasp the facts of a situation quickly, and by
doing so, she’s able to devise and implement a sensible course of action. Is
Jane enough of a mastermind to save the brash young American inventor Alexander
Sinclair, her friends at Stranje House, and possibly England itself?
Author: Kathleen
Baldwin
Pub.
Date: May 24, 2016
Publisher: Tor
Teen
Format: Hardcover,
Paperback, eBook
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."
Tess can't run far enough or fast enough to escape the prophetic dreams that haunt her. Dreams bring nothing but death and grief, and Tess refuses to accept that she may be destined for the same madness that destroyed her mother. Until her disturbing dreams become the only means of saving Lord Ravencross, the man she loves, and her friends at Stranje House from Lady Daneska and her lover, the Ghost-agent of Napoleon, who has escaped from Elba. Can the young ladies of Stranje House prevail once more? Or is England destined to fall into the hands of the power-mad dictator?
"Enticing from the first sentence." -New York Times Book Review
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.
Author: Kathleen Baldwin
Pub.
Date: May 19, 2015
Publisher: Tor Teen
Pages: 352
Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook
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...
About Kathleen:
SCHOOL FOR UNUSUAL GIRLS is her first
historical romance for Young Adults. Awarded 2016 Spirit of Texas, it is also a
Junior Library Guild selection. Publisher’s Lunch listed it in 2015 YA
BookBuzz. Scholastic licensed it for book fairs. Ian Bryce, producer of
Spiderman, Saving Private Ryan, and other notable films optioned the series for
film.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Meg
Cabot calls Kathleen’s romantic Regency adventure, “completely original and
totally engrossing.”
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