Author: Gail Carriger
Series: The Parasol Protectorate #3
Published: September 1 2012 by Orbit
Length: 374 pages
Source: library
Summary : Quitting
her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon
becomes the scandal of the London season.
Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London's vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead.
While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires -- and they're armed with pesto.
Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London's vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead.
While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires -- and they're armed with pesto.
Review: Alexia's
life is really not looking good. Conall believes she's been cheating due to the
fact werewolves can't procreate,
Victoria's chucked her off the Shadow Council, and Akeldama's left.
Alexia has no choice other than going across Europe to find the Templars, who
may or may not be useful.
Blameless is a perfect follow on from Changeless, starting
with an upset Alexia and an even more upset Loontwill family. We soon see more
of the Pack, Madame Lefoux, and everyone else. It gets going quickly, and is
very fun to see develop.
Alexia's travels across Europe means she meets a lot of new
people, each with their own funny things about them. It seems that every one of
Carriger's characters have some little quirk about them that makes them
likable, and the clock guy and the
German guy and the Templars are no exception.
The Steampunk technology in this is a little bit harder to
understand. I like the flying things that crop up, but the train like things in
the mountain-I really can't imagine them working.
What happened to Biffy. I won't say what happens, but him
and Akeldama are really cute at the end, but I am a complete LyallxBiffy shipper.
Conall's getting drunk is, put simply, hilarious.
Formaldehyde isn't the usual method of getting intoxicated, but it works for
him. Lyall's reaction to this, the challenger, and the whole mess that his Alpha gets him into is why I like him.
Alexia shows off her independence a little more, as she
isn't reliant on her werewolf husband. Yes, she's still with her butler and an
inventor, but she does sort out things on her own a bit more than in
Changeless.
The ending is really sudden. While the subplots are either
resolved naturally or left to be resumed in Heartless, the driving plot line is
cleared up within a couple of pages, which doesn't really do it justice.
However, by the end, you still want to carry on and see the
further adventures of our preternatural heroine.
Overall: Strength 4 tea to another instalment in a
great steampunk series.
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