Blameless - Gail Carriger

Blameless

By Gail Carriger

  • Release Date: 2010-09-01
  • Genre: Historical Fantasy
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 113 Ratings

Description

Quitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season in the third book of the NYT bestselling Parasol Protectorate series.

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.

Blameless is the third book of the Parasol Protectorate series: a comedy of manners set in Victorian London, full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking.

Reviews

  • Terrific Third Volume

    4
    By lyradora
    The Parasol Protectorate is a witty, exciting paranormal Steampunk adventure series. The characters are engaging and the world fully-realized. The chemistry between Alexia and Conall is tangible, and Lyall and Akeldama are strong enough secondary characters to support their own series. Moving on to book the fourth!
  • blameless

    5
    By Nordicmik
    Very interesting. Very English.
  • Another witty steampunk tale.

    5
    By Icyrae
    Gail Carriger blends audacity and humor seamlessly in Alexia's third novel. Reading this book was like a refreshing holiday with dear, but seldom seen, friends. The story kept my attention the entire way through. Brava Ms. Carriger, for another bright and humorous tale.