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Blameless by Gail Carriger
Feb. 13th, 2011 08:40 pmThe Blurb On The Back:
Quitting her husband’s house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Alexia becomes the scandal of the London season.
Not only does Queen Victoria dismiss her from the Shadow Council, but 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.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
The third in Gail Carriger’s series is another light-hearted romp of an adventure that’s told with wit and verve. Alexia Maccon is shaping up to be one of my favourite female characters with her sound common sense and hefty way with the parasol. This book resolved the cliff hanger from CHANGELESS to satisfying effect and it has confirmed me as a Floote fangirl. I am now very impatient for the release of HEARTLESS on 28th June 2011.
Not only does Queen Victoria dismiss her from the Shadow Council, but 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.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
The third in Gail Carriger’s series is another light-hearted romp of an adventure that’s told with wit and verve. Alexia Maccon is shaping up to be one of my favourite female characters with her sound common sense and hefty way with the parasol. This book resolved the cliff hanger from CHANGELESS to satisfying effect and it has confirmed me as a Floote fangirl. I am now very impatient for the release of HEARTLESS on 28th June 2011.
