Soulless (The Parasol Protectorate, Book 1) - Softcover

Gail Carriger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841499722 ISBN 13: 9781841499727

Publisher: Orbit, 2010

Synopsis

ALEXIA TARABOTTI IS LABOURING UNDER A GREAT MANY SOCIAL TRIBULATIONS. FIRST, SHE HAS NO SOUL. SECOND, SHE S A SPINSTER WHOSE FATHER IS BOTH ITALIAN AND DEAD. THIRD, SHE WAS RUDELY ATTACKED BY A VAMPIRE, BREAKING ALL STANDARDS OF SOCIAL ETIQUETTE. 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. WITH UNEXPECTED VAMPIRES APPEARING AND EXPECTED VAMPIRES DISAPPEARING, EVERYONE SEEMS TO BELIEVE ALEXIA RESPONSIBLE. CAN SHE FIGURE OUT WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING TO LONDON S HIGH SOCIETY? OR 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? SOULLESS IS A COMEDY OF MANNERS SET IN VICTORIAN FULL OF WEREWOLVES, VAMPIRES, DIRIGIBLES, AND TEA-DRINKING.

About this title

About the Author

Ms. Carriger began writing in order 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.

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Carriger debuts brilliantly with a blend of Victorian romance, screwball comedy of manners and alternate history. Prickly, stubborn 25-year-old bluestocking Alexia Tarabotti is patently unmarriageable, and not just because she's large-nosed and swarthy. She's also soulless, an oddity and a secret even in a 19th-century London that mostly accepts and integrates werewolf packs, vampire hives and ghosts. The only man who notices her is brash Lord Conall Maccon, a Scottish Alpha werewolf and government official, and (of course) they dislike each other intensely. After Alexia kills a vampire with her parasol at a party—how vulgar!—she and Conall must work together to solve a supernatural mystery that grows quite steampunkishly gruesome. Well-drawn secondary characters round out the story, most notably Lord Akeldama, Alexia's outrageous, italic-wielding gay best vampire friend. This intoxicatingly witty parody will appeal to a wide cross-section of romance, fantasy and steampunk fans. (Oct.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Orbit
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841499722
• ISBN 13: 9781841499727
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 299