Blameless
core novel 2010 Parasol Protectorate
Record
| First published | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.00 (42,780 ratings, collected 2026-09-23) |
| Page count | 384 |
| First-edition ISBN | 0-316-07415-2 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
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, that all of London's vampires are now very interested in seeing her 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, the only ones who know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, though they may be worse than the vampires, and they are armed with pesto. The third book of the Parasol Protectorate, a comedy of manners set in Victorian London, full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles and tea-drinking.
Where it sits
- Universe: Parasol Protectorate
- Series: Parasol Protectorate core; position 3 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Gail Carriger
Notes
- From the series record (Parasol Protectorate): A completed five-book steampunk/urban fantasy comedy-of-manners set in an alternate Victorian England where vampires and werewolves are a regulated part of polite society, following Alexia Tarabotti, a soulless woman whose touch neutralises supernatural powers, across marriage, motherhood, and widening supernatural politics.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Parasol Protectorate: position 3 of 5: previous Changeless (2010) · next Heartless (2011)
Sources
- Soulless (novel) — Wikipedia
- Changeless (novel) — Wikipedia
- Blameless (novel) — Wikipedia
- Heartless (Carriger novel) — Wikipedia
- Timeless (Carriger novel) — Wikipedia
- Orbit (publisher's synopsis, via Blackwell's)
- Hachette Book Group (publisher)
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