Orbit
Featuring: Lord Maccon; Alexia Tarabotti; Lord Akeldama
355 pages ISBN: 0316074152 EAN: 9780316074155 Kindle: B003JTHYBW Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Gail Carriger has created a world set in Victorian England
which includes Vampires, Werewolves, and Ghosts, oh my! In
this installment, Lady Alexia Maccon finds herself in a
delicate condition while it is widely known that her
husband, a werewolf of considerable age, could not possibly
father children. The whole idea is absurd according to all
desirable social circles. Poor Alexia is rejected by her
husband and the pack, asked to leave not so nicely from her
mother's home, and discovers the one person she thought she
could always count on, the vampire rogue Lord Akeldama, has
up and disappeared. What is a somewhat well bred lady to do?
Go to Italy, the land of coffee and pesto, of course!
BLAMELESS continues Carriger's tradition of the perfect
amount of action, controversy, and good ole British humor.
The characters each handle the disastrous scandal of unknown
paternity in the exact way you would imagine. Alexia decides
to travel, Lord Maccon gets drunk even though that should be
impossible, and Floote decides it would be an excellent time
to carry two petite single shot handguns. All the characters
you have grown to love or tolerate, the case may be, make
cameos through out the story including Ivy and the wicked
half-sisters. The story is well written and slightly complex
just like the previous novels in the series. There is also
excellent character development while you watch Alexia wrap
her head around a pregnancy that should never have come to
be. By far, my favorite aspect of the book is the use of
language. A wonderful aspect of historical novels is the
opportunity to hear a familiar language used in a way that
seems foreign. Carriger does this magnificently. At some
points I had to stop, re-read the section in question, and
laugh hysterically at the ingenious phrasing. Most enjoyable
is the name for the baby who has
stirred up a whole lot of trouble in London.
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.
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