Blameless by Gail Carriger

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***

Reviewed by Sam@WLABB on

5 of 5 stars

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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.

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