Lessons in Etiquette (Book)

Lessons in Etiquette is the second book in Christopher G. Nuttall's fantasy series Schooled in Magic.

After completing her first year of learning magic at Whitehall School, Emily accepts an invitation from Princess Alassa to accompany her on her progress back to her home country of Zangaria, where the princess may meet her future husband. Alassa, who was a spoiled brat before she met Emily, wants to show off her friend – and impress potential suitors.

For Emily, it is a chance to relax and explore a world very different to Earth, meet new people and come to terms with her reputation in the Nameless World. After her defeat of Shadye, everyone wants to know her, to talk with her, to kill her ... or to marry her. For Emily, hardly a social butterfly, the experience is disconcerting. She was never seriously courted before, not on Earth.

And yet, as she sees more of the countries surrounding Whitehall, she feels more and more out of place. The locals come from a very different culture, one that is often strange and horrifying to her eyes. Even her friends seem different people in their homes.

But dark forces are at work, plotting to capture the princess, take power in Zangaria ... and undo all of Emily's work. As all hell breaks loose, Emily may be all that stands between Zangaria and a return to the dark ages of brute force that threatened to lay the kingdom low, once before. And if she fails, her friends will be just the first victims of a war that will rip the Allied Lands apart.

Background
Desiring to avoid turning the series into a typical "boarding school story," Nuttall sought ways to have Emily Sanderson explore other parts of the Allied Lands; he came up with the idea of having Emily leave Whitehall to visit the realm of Zangaria, which two of Emily's friends hailed from already.

The land of Zangaria itself was based off of Scotland during the reign of Mary Queen of Scots, as well as pre-revolutionary France.

Plot Summary (Spoilers)
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