Accompanying Alexia to Italy is Madame Lefoux, the androgynous French inventor and hat-shop owner. “That’s a fantastic idea! I should do something equally outrageous.” ‘Blameless’ also concentrates a lot on the series secondary characters. Couldn’t he have, oh, I don’t know, talked to me about it? But, no, he gets to blunder about acting all put upon and getting sloshed while I-“ Alexia interrupted herself. And I am so angry that my great lout of a husband has left me to deal with this alone.
That, even if, by some miracle, I manage to carry through my confinement, I will never be able to share the same air as my own baby, let alone touch it. “I believe that, if I do not lose this child, I may be forced to attempt to rid myself of it, or go insane. The moments when Alexia allows herself to crumble and wallow are wonderful if only because they make her recovery that much braver. Oh yes, Alexia Tarabotti is probably at her finest when she is backed into a corner, armed only with her Italian fortitude and weaponized parasol.īut ‘Blameless’ also reveals a softer side to Alexia, mainly triggered by her ‘infant-inconvenience’. In ‘Blameless’ Alexia really shines and proves her mettle – she faces down London gossip-mongers, nightgown-wearing Templars, rampaging vampires and killer ladybugs. But Alexia is a heroine made of tough stuff, with a backbone of steel and enviable etiquette. This instalment sees Alexia Tarabotti in the uncomfortable quandary of being abandoned and pregnant.
Gail Carriger is probably the most unique voice in the paranormal genre to date, and she continues her magnificence in ‘Blameless’. Her ‘Parasol Protectorate’ series is historical paranormal romance with a healthy dose of Steampunk. Gail Carriger’s books are a breath of fresh air. But everyone seems to be forgetting that Alexia Tarabotti is a prenatural soulless – the first female soulless in history, and therefore an anomaly.ĭesperate to prove everyone (namely Conall) wrong about the legitimacy of her unborn child, Alexia decides to travel to Italy and uncover information about her prenatural self. Everyone is convinced that Alexia was unfaithful to Lord Maccon because he is a werewolf and therefore dead, and thereby unable to procreate. She has become the talk of London town for Conall’s abandonment, and when word gets out about Alexia’s delicate condition, she is kicked out of her mother’s house too.
When ‘Blameless’ begins Alexia is living in the aftermath of scandal. At the end of ‘ Changeless ’ our buxom heroine discovered she was pregnant, and her werewolf husband Conall Maccon accused her of infidelity and kicked her out of his house. Gail Carriger’s second instalment of the Parasol Protectorate ended on a doozy of a cliff-hanger.
** SPOILERS ahead of book #2 ‘ Changeless’ **
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