Rating: 4/5 Stars
Reviewer: Todd
Summary: 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.
BLAMELESS is the third book of the Parasol Protectorate series: a comedy of manners set in Victorian London, full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking. –From Amazon.com
Review: In this tale of the Parasol Protectorate we end up being caught up in matters of betrayal and trust, more so than usual with this bunch. We see the lengths one goes to restore their good name, or more aptly what one will go through to prove their husband is a pig headed stubborn fool for not trusting in them. Because half of this volume’s plot is related to Lord Connall Maccon committing a great act of hurtful stupidity. The other half has been creeping about since last volume, rearing its head in in the form a deadly ladybug attack. Some things change while others stay the same, revelations to questions subtly hidden through the books so you may have never asked. But with those revelations, or more to be precise from some organizations knowing them before the reveal, come actions that forever change the course of several people’s fates. Humor, adventure, with tastes of sorrow and disbelief as our thoughts of the characters we’ve come to know shift. Those are the things that await whoever picks up the book, with a dash of practicality of course.
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