Search - Changeless (The Parasol Protectorate, Bk 2)

One reason I love this series...the author compares the physical pain shifting from human to wolf form and back to "rearranging ones parlor furniture for a party, [because it:] involved a transition from tidy to very messy to tidy once more." HAHAHA!

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Holy crap!! I just finished the book and I am...am...flabbergasted! Thats how it ends?? Holy crap! Now I know why the next book is called Blameless.

Good grief, well the ending aside this book was incredible. The science behind the electronic transmitters were sometimes over my head but the plot, the spies, the twists and turns...all awesome. Carriger is amazing and so is this world she has created. I positively cannot wait for the 3rd book come September!

The only things that annoyed me this book were the secondary characters. Ivy, Felicity, Tunstell and their nonsense did nothing to help the plot. All they managed was to annoy me and make me skim onto the real plot and action. In the first book Ivy was funny, adorable, and sweet, and in this book she comes off as almost stupid, annoying, self centered, and dramatic. Hopefully in the 3rd book we see more of Lyall and Akledama instead!

The second book of the Parasol Protectorate, continues the story of Alexis as she assumes her new duties as both wife, and agent of the Crown. While this book does much to advance the storyline, the pacing is slower than the first book, and there are few surprises, save at the end of the book. The last chapter sets up the next book and does so remarkably well. A well-written, interesting saga that is a breath of fresh air to the genre, without being bogged down by the banality of today's supernatural/romance fiction.

Holy cow, I certainly didn’t remember the first book being so entertaining! But I suppose my memory is just a tad off, because CHANGELESS was a wonderfully entertaining romp that had me laughing throughout—in the moments that I could tear my eyes away from the page, that is.

Overly pragmatic Lady Maccon and the lovably gruff and domineering Conall Maccon make for an utterly charming couple. From their bedroom antics (don’t worry: it’s all PG-13!) to their sleuthing, it’s difficult to find a more unlikely—and thus all the more endearing—paranormal couple.

Gail Carriger’s writing, of course, is on Austenian levels. Like, if Jane Austen were to write steampunk/paranormal fare, it would probably sound exactly like this, with all the ridiculous characters and outrageous societal twists. Carriger has a way of writing scenes so that she doesn’t come right out and say what the characters meant, but gives us ever-so-obvious hints that combine charactorial humor with narrative humor for double the entertainment!

Oh my this book was amazing. Twists,turns,and the ending was a huge suprise. I will start Blameless in a few hours.

Second in the series.
I have to admit, I was very disoriented by the first chapter - Alexia just didn't seem to be acting in character, based on "Soulless." But after that, it all began to come back to me...
If you're interested in a light mystery-romance with vampires and werewolves in 19th-century England, this book delivers. It's not groundbreaking or life-changing, but it's fun entertainment.
I loved new character Madame Lefoux, and I continued to enjoy Ivy's hats.

To be honest, I was disappointed for the first 100 pages of this book. It just seemed to drag on and I didn't like how snotty Alexia was. She was always a little overbearing in the first book, she had a quirky and witty charm to her that balanced out her snark. She seemed to have none of this charm at the beginning of this book. However, after page 112 the book became great. The story finally picked up and the characters got their charm back. In the end I liked this book better the Soulless.