Blameless

By: Gail Carriger

Narrated by: Emily Gray

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.

An Endlessly Entertaining Writer

I think very few authors are so whimsical, so literary, and writes with such quality. If you wanted a novel of manners that is fun and well written, this is for you. Emily Gray is a fantastic reader. I would highly recommend this novel, or any other in the series.

suggestion

the reading break between chapters made me think 🤔 that the application stopped. I not sure why there was suck a long pause ⏯️ but it pulled me out of the story.

Enjoyable

I enjoyed most of this book as it took place racing across France and then dealing with the Templars in Italy. However, I did not like the way Lord Maccon behaved and the way it basically obliterated Alexia’s work and personal life. The groveling from the man was nowhere near sufficient. But the adventure part was fun and the audiobook narration was good, so I can recommend “Blameless” overall. I am continuing the series with the hope that the next book is better.

Delightful!

There are so many characters that I get confused and back up the story to replay. But the story and characters are absolutely wonderful. The humor reminds me of British comedies I grew up with. I love everything about this story.

The saga continues

I will be sad when this series comes to an end....they are becoming old friends. This is kinda a bridge book, one that moves you along the story line. Not a whole lot of action/interaction, but one in which the minor characters,that we met before, take on a bit more depth. Predictable but fun....looking forward to number 4.