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S'està carregant… Soulless (2009)de Gail Carriger
  
Best Fantasy Novels (126) Gaslamp Fantasy (5) » 37 més Female Author (141) Female Protagonist (101) Top Five Books of 2013 (1,013) Great Audiobooks (6) Ghosts (30) Books Read in 2022 (874) Best Books Set in London (100) Books Read in 2016 (4,208) United Kingdom (24) io9 Book Club (15) Books tagged favorites (264) Read These Too (123) infjsarah's wishlist (289) Comedy of Manners (54) al.vick-series (268) Fantasy of manners (40) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.  panamamama | Aug 2, 2022 |  Carriger, Gail. Soulless. Parasol Protectorate No. 1. Orbit, 2009. Soulless is the book that launched Gail Carriger’s career. It blends Victorian comedy of manners, a marriage plot that would be at home in a Jane Austen novel, steampunk, a paranormal mystery with plenty of blood, some lovable vampires and werewolves, some not-so-lovable vampires, and a big dollop of steamy romantic sex. Heroine Alexia Tarabotti is an upper-middleclass woman a few social challenges. She has a sharp wit and a no-nonsense-please personality that strikes some as unfeminine. At the ripe age of 26, she considers herself a spinster too close to her sell-by date. Worse yet, her father was Italian, giving her a complexion that is darker than those of most of her social class. Finally, she has no soul. In Carriger’s universe, soul is a measurable quality. Those with more soul can be turned into vampires, werewolves, and the like. Those with less soul will be killed by the bite. But Alexia has no soul, which makes her a preternatural whose touch will neutralize the paranormal and return the vamp or were-whatever to human form. Handy, since society is being plagued with some untrained vampires who don’t know their place. She and a hunky werewolf Count must solve the mystery. Their meet-cute involves sitting on a hedgehog, which will cool the doggy ardor with dispatch, but not for long. 4 stars. (  ) Tom-e | Jun 23, 2022 | Yeah. I'm just not the right audience for this kind of genre. (  )1  MC_Rolon | Jun 15, 2022 | Time for a re-read! (  ) Malaraa | Apr 26, 2022 | 3 1/2 stars Quite a good read interrupted by interpersonal intimate nonsense which really could have been kept out of frame much of the time. I'm sure there are those who enjoy such things, but it really got in the way of the action. And, really, right when the pair should have been focused on the danger, they were busy getting it on and throwing me out of the story. Do people in reality come this >. (  ) fuzzipueo | Apr 24, 2022 |
 Carriger debuts brilliantly with a blend of Victorian romance, screwball comedy of manners and alternate history. Contingut aTé l'adaptació
Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire -- and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate. With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London's high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart? No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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