(The Parasol Protectorate Book #3)
by Gail Carriger
Genre: Paranormal Romance | Fantasy | Historical
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.
Finding herself pregnant, without a husband by her side (Lord Maccon), without a loyal friend near by (Lord Akeldama), and stuck within her horrendous family home again with the whole society of London ruthlessly gossiping behind her back ... Alexia almost welcomes the international adventure that occurs during Blameless. She's on a mission to discovery the secret the vampire cults are keeping in regards to her "infant-inconvenience" destiny, while dodging death treats, imprisonment, and unexpected surprises.
If you read the series, you know they're a nice change from almost everything else out there. Very Victorian, very scientific, and very high-brow. Yet, it was almost too much for my taste this time. I wanted more romance and got robotic lady bugs. Not enough comical relief and too much Madame Lefoux. I'm not a fan of MANY of the side characters throughout this series, thus if I get an overload of them ... I don't enjoy the story overall. Thus, that was the problem with Blameless for me. I couldn't connect with Alexia anywhere throughout the tale and felt the whole book was written as a rat race without a finish line. When the ending finally does arrive, it's like BAM only four ages left. Whaaaat? I didn't know if I wanted more or to just be happy it was over. Sad, but true!
Likes: Alexia making deals with her "infant-inconvenience" to become more motherly.
Dislikes: Lord Maccon's stubbornness didn't make him a very likable character.
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