SPOILER ALERT: If you have not read Soulless, there may be spoilers ahead.
Publisher: Orbit (March 30, 2010)
Mass Market Paperback: 374 Pages
Genre: YA Paranormal/Fantasy
Series: The Parasol Protectorate #2
From Goodreads. Alexia Tarabotti, the Lady Woolsey, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he disappears - leaving her to deal with a regiment of supernatural soldiers encamped on her doorstep, a plethora of exorcised ghosts, and an angry Queen Victoria.
But Alexia is armed with her trusty parasol, the latest fashions, and an arsenal of biting civility. Even when her investigations take her to Scotland, the backwater of ugly waistcoats, she is prepared: upending werewolf pack dynamics as only the soulless can.
She might even find time to track down her wayward husband, if she feels like it.
Publisher: Orbit (September 1, 2010)
Mass Market Paperback: 335 Pages
Genre: Adult Romance/Fantasy
(Supernatural creatures: vampires, ghosts, werewolves, preternaturals)
(Supernatural creatures: vampires, ghosts, werewolves, preternaturals)
Series: The Parasol Protectorate #3
From Goodreads. Quitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season.
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.
Review by Kate
The next two installments in The Parasol Protectorate series were just as magnificent as the first. Lady Maccon still finds herself in dangerous situations that revolve around her Soulless status. With the introduction of new characters and digging deeper into the ones you already know and love, fans of the series will not be disappointed!
Changeless was an adventure that captivated me from the beginning. Starting with the sudden and unexplained disappearance of her new husband, Alexia is once again thrown into a mystery of supernatural proportions. Alexia and her dearest friend Ivy are introduced to a one Madame Lefoux who is an inventor and a sharp dresser with a taste for men's wear. They travel up to Scotland, following Lord Macoon, on a dirigible where it is quite obvious that Alexia's life is in danger. In Scotland, Lord Maccon's previous pack is without an Alpha and has lost the ability to change (title hint).
I could not put this book down! Carriger starts her books off right in the middle of the action and I am hooked right from the start. My two favorite new characters were Madame Lefoux and Major Channing Channing of the Chesterfield Channings (what a mouth full!). Major Channing made a grave mistake in his first meeting of Lady Maccon and I literally laughed out loud wondering how he would dig himself out. I hoped his role would develop through the series because I was not ready to let go of the cocky Gamma of the Woolsey Pack just yet. Madame Lefoux was a mystery to me and I was anxious to see if she was really on Alexia's side or not. Her strange way of dressing and her questionable sexual preference lead to entertaining inner dialogue from Alexia in wondering the same thing.
The revelation of what caused the changelessness of the Scottish pack was astonishing. It opened dangerous doors for Alexia to consider in her soulless status. And Carriger left this book wide open with another situation for Alexia that made me gasp when I read it. Thank goodness I had Blameless ready to read because I immediately started reading because I had to know what happened next!
Stop reading here if you have not read Changeless, otherwise you may be spoiled!!
Blameless stepped up the danger for Alexia even more if you could believe it. With her infant-inconvience and her homeless status she didn't have many places to turn other than her new friend Madame Lefoux and her husband's more sensible Beta. And with the vampire's having a death threat on Alexia's head, they set off to find more answers about her preternatural status where else but Italy.
Alexia was not safe at any point in this book. It was enough to worry about with her being pregnant but the bounty on her head by the vampires was an issue. They were always only one step ahead but several times I found my hands tightly clenched, and maybe a little sweaty, praying that these characters would make it out unscathed.
Relationship-wise, I wanted Lord and Lady Maccon to get back together! I was upset in Changeless when Connell flipped out on Alexia for getting pregnant. Personally, I think he went the wrong way about it, but this Scot can be so stubborn! I anxiously awaited him to get his head out of his bum, but meanwhile I liked how even under severe drunkenness he took charge in making sure she was under some sort of protection.
I like how in each book Carriger unravels the mystery behind preternaturals and I am very excited to see what kind of trouble the infant-inconvenience causes for the supernatural world in Heartless.
My Review of Soulless
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