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Soulless by gail carriger audible11/21/2023 I left the man in peace, taking note of the title & promptly pulled out my phone to order it online. "It's a steampunk series, do you like steampunk?" he said, managing to regroup himself. He looked mortified, looking nervously around us and all the curious eyes suddenly watching our interaction. "Excuse me, If I may - what are you grinning about?" In a realm where strangers don't want to, but are often forced to interact, I decided to talk to a stranger. Something told me he was reading something scintillating. I was riding home from work on a very packed bus and noticed the cover of the book the man sitting across from me was reading. The Parasol Protectorate Series by Gail Carriger is a treasured find from 2010. 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. 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. 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. Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. Quitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season. She might even find time to track down her wayward husband, if she feels like it. Even when her investigations take her to Scotland, the backwater of ugly waistcoats, she is prepared: upending werewolf pack dynamics as only the soulless can. Then he disappears - leaving her to deal with a regiment of supernatural soldiers encamped on her doorstep, a plethora of exorcised ghosts, and an angry Queen Victoria.īut Alexia is armed with her trusty parasol, the latest fashions, and an arsenal of biting civility. SOULLESS is a comedy of manners set in Victorian London: full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking.Īlexia Tarabotti, the Lady Woolsey, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. ![]() Can she figure out what is actually happening to London's high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart? With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire - and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. ![]() Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations.
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