The dialogue is still very witty ( maybe a touch too witty), but didn't put a dent in how bored I was 70%- 80% of the time reading these.Īlso the way things were resolved at the end was very Silly, I definitely respect Alexia less and dislike Conall more for it. Bk 2 and 3 have very minimal interaction btwn Alexis and Lord Macon and way too much everything else.
I'm not a big fan when slews of new characters are introduced, or too much focus on introduced side characters that don't significantly add to the plot and are just there to fill pages. Blameless was slightly less irksome than Changeless, but still had whole sections where I had to force myself not to skim. I probably would've have never finished it if a pal hadn't told me a spoiler connected to bk 3 that compelled me to push through so I could read Blameless. Changeless had it moments but was all over the place. And this book is the one I’m making “wait. That was clumsy and it pulled the emotional punch - do I like that?” So you take another bite, and you’re like, “. Zing with the one-liners, and the cross-dressing lesbian inventor is great, and all that stuff about how our heroine doesn’t magically get maternal instincts just because she’s pregnant. And you think, “actually, you know, that’s kind of nice. I think?”īut you’re not sure, so you take another bite, because at this point you’ve got to figure it out. So you take a bigger bite, and you think, “well, but hang on, there was something a bit funny going on with the aftertaste. Kinda creamy, a little light, nice steampunk flavor as it finishes.
See, it’s like when you’re handed a new kind of cheese, right? And you take a nibble and you think, “huh! Cheese! Yeah, okay. The Indecisive Cheese Theory of series fiction 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.īLAMELESS 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. 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 in the third book of the NYT bestselling Parasol Protectorate series.
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