Blameless (Orbit) (Parasol Protectorate, #3)

by Gail Carriger

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, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all the London 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.

***Also available as a manga adaptation***

• ISBN10: 0316074152
• ISBN13: 9780316074155
• Publish Date: 1 September 2010 (first published 1 January 2010)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Out of Print: 13 July 2011
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
• Imprint: Little, Brown & Co
• Format: Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
• Pages: 384
• Language: English

Reviews

[Sam@WLABB]

Rating: 4.5 Stars
Poor Alexia! I was left, so bereft, at the end of the last book, with Lord Maccon casting his wife out in her delicate condition. This delicate condition causing an increase in the Vampires' and the Templars' interests in Lady Maccon. In this book, we find Alexia trying to find "proof" for her husband (and everyone else), that she has had no questionable transgressions. This takes her and her rag-tag group of friends, which the Earl has nicknamed the Parasol Protectorate, on an adventure through France and Italy. We find Alexia, slowly, learning more about her preternatural roots and the infant inconvenience. With this, there was still everything that endears me to this series - action, adventure, witty dialog, danger, intrigue, and yes, romance. The colorful cast of characters has grown, and many characters' situations have changed. I did have to deduct half a star for the ending, but it may be the quiet before the storm.

[nitzan_schwarz]

A laugh-out loud kind of book.

[lizarodz]

Review to come

[Quirky Cat]

I read this book in one night, immediately following finishing the second in the series. Luckily for me, I'm more comfortable with how this one ends so I don't need to rush and buy the next (I'm not even sure if the next one is out yet...going to have to check that!)

[MurderByDeath]

Absolutely excellent book, although probably my least favorite of the entire series. I first listened to this story on audio, and reviewed that audiobook edition more completely.