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Waistcoats & Weaponry

  • 2014 first published
  • 298 pages
  • ★ 3.5 (4 ratings)
  • 6 editions

Gail Carriger's Waistcoats & Weaponry (2014) is a werewolf fiction novel. It takes readers to Great Britain in the 19th century. It deals with etiquette, spies, werewolves and schools.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.5 out of 5 from 4 ratings, and 13 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 6 editions.

It runs to roughly 298 pages — 5–6 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Waistcoats & Weaponry

In her alternate England of 1851, while taking her friend Sidheag by train to her werewolf pack in Scotland, fifteen-year-old Sophronia uncovers a plot that threatens to dissolve all of London into chaos and must decide where her loyalties lie once and for all.
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Awards & lists

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Era

Subjects

  • Etiquette
  • Spies
  • Werewolves
  • Schools
  • Boarding schools
  • Children's fiction
  • Science fiction
  • Great britain, history, 19th century
  • Literature and fiction, juvenile

Quick answers

Who wrote Waistcoats & Weaponry?

Waistcoats & Weaponry was written by Gail Carriger and first published in 2014.

What genre is Waistcoats & Weaponry?

It is usually shelved as Werewolf Fiction.

How long is Waistcoats & Weaponry?

The median edition has 298 pages, about 5–6 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Waistcoats & Weaponry?

Readers who like it often enjoy Breaking Dawn, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner and The Twilight Saga.

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