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CHANGELESS

Changeless, April 2010
The Parasol Protectorate #2
by Gail Carriger

Orbit
Featuring: Alexia Maccon
400 pages
ISBN: 0316074144
EAN: 9780316074148
Kindle: B0030I1XFK
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
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"A lady must always keep up protocol. Even when trying to save the Crown."

Fresh Fiction Review

CHANGELESS
Gail Carriger

Reviewed by Jaime Zalinski
Posted September 19, 2011

Fantasy Steampunk

CHANGELESS by Gail Carriger starts off approximately three months after the end of Soulless. It seems our main character has everything she wanted out of life. A loving, but irritable husband, a position of standing in society, and the ear of the queen. The governmental position given to her due to the rare soulless condition she inherited from her Italian father has started to cause issues with her social status as Lady Woolsey. Alexi must investigate the mystery of why London's supernaturals are suddenly turning mortal while following social protocol. After all, a lady must never be seen traveling without the appropriate chaperon!

This addition to the series is filled with all the social quirks and British humor that readers fell in love with in Soulless. We still have a best friend with an obsession with ugly hats, a flamboyant vampire, and a cranky husband who happens to be the Alpha of the local werewolf pack. New additions to the intriguing cast of characters includes a French business woman who happens to also be an inventor and likes to wear men's fashions, including the top hat. The dialogue between characters is priceless and at times will have you laughing out loud. The ending will leave the reader satisfied on most fronts including a twist that was not easy to guess through the story.

Overall, I loved this book. I have been engrossed in the world Carriger created from the beginning. She has taken the popularity of Paranormal novels and given them a new spin. Some of the banter between characters can get tiresome but this is going to happen when a lady of society has to keep up appearances at the same time as investigating the Paranormal. Especially when you have a family like hers.

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SUMMARY

Alexia Maccon, now known as the Lady Maccon, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he disappears - leaving her to deal with a regiment of supernatural soldiers encamped on her doorstep, a plethora of exorcised ghosts, and an angry Queen Victoria. But Alexia is armed with her trusty parasol, the latest fashions, and an arsenal of biting civility. Even when her investigations take her into the backwater of ugly waistcoats and Scotland, she is prepared: resurrecting ghosts, exposing a French spy, and unearthing the mysteries of a stolen Egyptian mummy. She might even find time to track down her wayward husband, if she feels like it.

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