Blameless

Gail Carriger

Sep 2010 · Sold by Orbit

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

steampunk, supernatural, werewolves, Europe, Italy, series, Parasol-Protectorate, audiobook----- If you've been fortunate enough to have read the first two books in this series, you'll really love this one. If you haven't, you'll still enjoy it a lot, but will become obsessed with finding the others. Parallel plots are the norm here, one involving the werewolves and one on the experiences of Alexia, Mms LeFoux, and Floot at the hands of the German scientist and the Templars, not to mention the lethal mechanical ladybugs and an ornithopter! The entire Parasol Protectorate series is great fun!

I really like this series. Its very cute and funny. There is some action but there is always that underlying humor, its a nice change of pace for me.

Couldn't put it down.

About the author

New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger writes to cope with being raised in obscurity by an expatriate Brit and an incurable curmudgeon. She escaped small town life and inadvertently acquired several degrees in Higher Learning. Ms. Carriger then traveled the historic cities of Europe, subsisting entirely on biscuits secreted in her handbag. She resides in the Colonies, surrounded by fantastic shoes, where she insists on tea imported from London.