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  <title><![CDATA[Soulless (The Parasol Protectorate #1)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she&#8217;s a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she is being rudely attacked by a vampire to whom she has not been properly introduced!

Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire, and 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&#8217;s high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? And who is the real enemy . . . and do they have treacle tart?

&#8220;Soulless&#8221; is a comedy of manners set in Victorian London full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking&#8230;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">10</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2009</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Soulless (Parasol Protectorate Series, Book 1)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gail Carriger]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fans of Steampunk, rejoice. And better count those who adore Steampunk with a great romance that has a delightful, witty and very original heroine. Gail Carriger’s Soulless will be on the lips of many before the end of the year. This is one of the most refreshing books I have read for 2009. Orbit ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68101587">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book.  I love Elizabeth Lefebvre for reading it first.  I now have to put Elizabeth on my Christmas ham list.<br/>Wherever you are, Elizabeth, you rock.<br/><br/>this book has it all:  urban fantasy, steampunk, romance, hot Scot, vampires, evil scientists, royalty, and a strong femal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75603779">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish I had written this book! Only because it combines two of my latest fetishes:  Corsets and Paranormal creatures.  After the first chapter this book is pretty good, I really enjoyed it (although it's not reinventing the wheel in any way).  Nice romance, appealing characters, melding of the two ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77623407">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Soulless</em> by Gail Carriger is the first in the new Parasol Protectorate series, which is set in an alternate Victorian England where vampires and werewolves are common, accepted, and registered members of polite society.  In fact, several of the vampires and werewolves hold significantly higher socia...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77870013">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77753891">
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    <body><![CDATA[Please, please, please write more like this! (Kirsten's plea to the author.)<br/><br/>If you take a pinch of Jane Austen, a smidgen of paranormal, and add a twist of fashion sense with an overwhelming dollop of droll humor, you would get this book.<br/><br/>In a Victorian England where the werew...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77753891">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you liked Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr. Norrell (as I did), you will definitely like this book. It has the same wonderful attention to historical details and speech patterns, the same matter-of-fact approach to the supernatural in the story world, and the same generous sprinkling of humor throughout. Fr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74782655">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74536669">
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    <body><![CDATA[“…and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate.” This is excerpt from the back of the book “Soulless” by Gail Carriger and while all the “he’s so hot” adjectives left me cold, the idea of Queen Victoria employing a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74536669">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Love this book.  The character, Alexia, is not a missish girl. She lives in the time of Queen Victoria in an alternate history.  The supernaturals, vampires and werewolves, for example, have made themselves visible to the government and been granted their protection and their own bureau.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74316223">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finished Soulless a couple of hours ago and I'm still grinning. I picked it up on the recommendation of a friend, and I feel like I owe her one because I had so much fun reading this book. Soulless is the story of Alexia Tarabotti, a spinster in a steampunky, alternative Victorian England. Miss Ta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73524150">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When trying to figure out how to categorize Soulless all I could really think of was 'Historical Paranormal Romantic Spoof'...because honestly everything and everyone, in the beginning of the book, was so over the top for their stereotype. Alexia was so in your face blue-stocking and Lord Maccon was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73380627">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66423443">
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd seen this cover batted about the internets for awhile and I admired it at every encounter. It really is effective, I think, in giving you an accurate and enticing glimpse into the goods inside. The slant of the modern font, the steampunky parasol, the charmingly off kilter stance of the heroine....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66423443">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not my usual, but I've been exploring steampunk lately, and this book's been cross-marketed to that market, so I picked it up.  It's really more of a paranormal romance, a genre I know virtually nothing about.  I'm not much of a fluff person, but this was witty and playful and fun.  I threw it in my...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74935610">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[picked this book up (via Amazon) because the cover was so interesting, and the line, &quot;a novel of vampires,werewolves, and parasols&quot; had me at hello.  Very intriguing.  And what I discovered was something with the humorous romantic an social sensibilities of Georgette Heyer in her Regency r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74629097">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74743337">
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    <body><![CDATA[Possessing a practical and curious nature, Alexia Tarabotti has come to accept her faults as the natural cause of her spinsterhood: she's not noticeably pretty (unlike her silly two half-sisters), her deceased father happens to have been Italian (practically unforgivable), and she doesn't have a sou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74743337">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am madly in love with this book! It's a perfect blend of historical, fantasy and romance with a great sense of humor to boot. It's as if Georgette Heyer and Jim Butcher had a love child. <br/><br/>Gail Carriger, like Butcher, has created a world that blends reality and fantasy so well that you f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74673054">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alexia Tarabotti was born without a soul, which makes her a rare creature indeed if you look past her exterior as a half Italian spinster.  Because Alexia was born without a soul makes her a 'preternatural' (though the less kind may say 'soul-sucker') and has the ability to negate any supernatural w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74410027">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Vampires, werewolves, and golems, oh my! Set in an alternative 19th century England stocked with dirigibles, parasols, and new fangled electricity, 25-year old spinster Alexia Tarabotti is a firey young woman whose lack of a soul allows her to (temporarily) restore humanity to the supernatural merel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74231360">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Verbose bluestocking spinster versus alpha werewolf... great dialogue in a historical setting with steampunk elements - a mixture that worked well for me.<br/><u>Extract</u>:<blockquote>Alexia stood up, revealing to Lord Maccon that she had arranged her faint to rest comfortably against a fallen settee pillow. He gri...</blockquote><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75984407">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book can bring readers back to urban supernatural, with its blend of tongue-in-cheek humor and pokes at Victorian mores, and manages to blend in it a nice bit of sexual humor as well. <br/><br/>Alexia is a half Italian spinster in England who has committed the sin of sitting alone in a librar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72092211">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a mix of things and I fell head over heels for it. I had heard a lot about steampunk and after reading this I want more. I love a good alternate history/earth kind of book.<br/><br/>And yes I know I put up a lot of genres there, but there is a lot of different things in here,  and how...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66763495">more...</a>]]></body>
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