Rating: 5/5 Stars
Reviewer: Todd
Summary: Lady Alexia Maccon, soulless, is at it again, only this time the trouble is not her fault. When a mad ghost threatens the queen, Alexia is on the case, following a trail that leads her deep into her husband's past. Top that off with a sister who has joined the suffragette movement (shocking!), Madame Lefoux's latest mechanical invention, and a plague of zombie porcupines, Alexia barely has time to remember she happens to be eight months pregnant.
Will Alexia manage to determine who is trying to kill Queen Victoria before it is too late? Is it the vampires again or is there a traitor lurking about in wolf's clothing? And what, exactly, has taken up residence in Lord Akeldama's second best closet?
Heartless is the fourth 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: It’s in this book that our perceptions of characters get turned on their heads, the secrets revealed never allowing us to think of them the same way. Silliness is revealed as hiding perceptive depth, the extent that some will go for self or kin becomes known, and long hidden secrets come to light. And while a poltergeist in this universe has been seen before, it’s in this book that the process of becoming one is revealed. It’s a sad and horrifying process, something akin to rapid onset of senility. If such a condition also came with one’s body parts free floating away from them while dissolving into ether. Looking back I’d have to say that this book is about coping, it can be the small things that that help one and theirs’ get through lives. It’s also about just how far some will go to be able to survive, to keep what is precious to them safe. And those extents can be both far, and absolutely terrifying.
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