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A review on readandfindout.com! A friend extolled the virtues of Soulless, I went to the bookstore and read the first few sentences and I was hooked! ^_^
Discovered Soulless from an author reading in town. Yes, Gail in the flesh! She was cute and dressed up in period piece.
Saw the books at BN, then BN offered me Soulless for my Nook and I was hooked!
My mother saw an add at our local library for a reading and thought I would love the books. Unfortunately the talk was during the family vacation so I went out and got all of her books and read the entire parasol protectorate series. They saved me from a week and a half of a miserable vacation.
I was getting into steampunk and was looking for books on Audible. I hate the cover for the first book in the Parasol Protectorate series (her positioning weirds me out) but I'd heard some good things about the writing, so I picked it up with some trepidation. I finished it a mere two days later because I couldn't put it down! I picked up the other ones immediately and listened to them back to back every spare moment until I finished the set!
A friend whose a huge fan of steam punk recommended the series to me after I told her I was in search of a new fantasy/supernatural/romance series. After reading chapter 1 of Soulless I was immediately sold! I've read 2 books in the Alexi Tarribotti series, and now I'm on book 3. I also haven't read Etiquette and Espionage and Curtsies and Conspiracies is soon to be released next month! So many books, yet so little time...
It was a sort of recommendation from a friend (I stalked her book shelves) and I saw where she had Etiquette & Espionage and I thought that was an interesting title so I checked it out and feel in love. I read all 7 books (Parasol and Finishing School combined) in about 10 days. I'm been a loyal follower ever since. November can't come soon enough.
I was perusing a local bookstore and noticed the cover of Soulless. When I read the back cover, I knew it'd be hilarious and well written. I was instantly hooked.
I was looking for something to add to my huge to read pile and found etiquette & Espionage and finished the book in a day. The other books will be bought as soon as I get some more money. :)
I was poo pooing steampunk genre and a trusted friend who shares my reading DNA recommended Souless. Loved it - while I will still hold hand on heart and say I am not a steampunk fan - I am most definitely a parasol protectorate fan, have one more in the series to read - and now I am a Finishing School fan, having just started etiquette and espionage :)
Sally906 wrote: "I was poo pooing steampunk genre and a trusted friend who shares my reading DNA recommended Souless. Loved it - while I will still hold hand on heart and say I am not a steampunk fan - I am most de..."I wasn't into steampunk (still not to be honest) but Gail knows how to spin a tale. I'm still apprehensive about reading other authors but Gail could write a cereal box or a post-it and I'd read it.
Hi Everyone *waves*Just joined - how did I miss that Gail has a Good Reads group?!
Soulless is the first book I reluctantly read - it was so popular with raves reviews all around from readers on two of my book forums. I hadn't read any Steampunk, and didn't think it sounded like something I'd enjoy.
Gail drew me in from the first few pages and I was hooting with laughter early on (when Alexia beat a vampire with her parasol and scolds him for a lack of manners). Loved the characters, Alexia's strong personality & amazing steampunk machines & "things". A rare 5 star review for me.
Usually I find that very popular books with rave reviews aren't my cup of tea (so to speak ;-), but after Soulless, I immediately got my hands on the others in the series. My review of Soulless:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
Fell in love with Steampunk, 3 years after the genre took off, and am now reading as many other steampunk books as I can get my hands on.
My library has purchased #1 Etiquette & Espionage (my request). I'm waiting a bit to request they buy #2 & #3 before I get started.
I'm actually part of a teen group thing at my library and on of the things we do is Advance Reader Copies, and I got Curtsies & Conspiracies through there. I loved it so much that the librarian who runs the group told me they had another series by the same author... and long story short, I'm now into steampunk and am a Gail Carriger fan.
The wonderful person that my little sister now knows as "box of books lady" gave me a copy of Etiquette and Espionage, I believe. ;)
I was browsing through the comics/manga at my library (hoping to find a fun, quick read). I found Soulless and got the first one. I devoured it that night and went back for the other two the next day. When I finished them (and obviously needed more) I looked online for book four...only to find out it didn’t exist...but there were NOVELS!!! I bought them up as fast as I could read them and thought I would die while waiting for others to be released. (Luckily Heartless had just come out so I only had to wait for Finishing School at the time...then Custard Protocol...and novellas...and San Andreas...)
I have been a long-time follower of CakeWrecks, created by Jen Yates. She has another blog called Epbot.com, where she posts about geeky crafts, cosplay, and books. I have enjoyed many of her book recommendations, including Soulless, and have become an avid fan of the parasolverse.
I found Soulless while at my local library. I read the back but wasn't one hundred percent sure. Then I read the first page and was hooked from the first line.
Scanning the shelves at the library for something new to read. The title of Soulless caught my eye, than the cover, and once I read the synopsis I was sold! she became one of my favorite authors of all the time and to this day I recommend her books to everyone I can because I think we can all agree that Gail Carriger's books do not get the attention they deserve. Her books are brilliant! And hilarious!
I just noticed that in my earlier comment I said Heartless had just come out. I meant to say Timeless. Oops. Also, I love it when friends try to recommend Gail’s books to me and then we both freak out because we didn’t know the other person had already read them. It’s only happened a few times...but it’s great. Another time, a friend was working a fan table for his steampunk group at a convention that my Airship was selling at (he’s from Louisiana and we’re from Mississippi but a lot of the groups around here are friends with each other). He had several of Gail’s books on the table...but it turned out that they belonged to another crew member of his. He had read the backs of them though and thought they were interesting. We talked about them for a bit and when he found out there were gay characters he got really excited. He was planning to read them but I never got a chance to follow up with him about it.
A friend had the Soulless manga, I read all three volumes and loved it, and was informed it was a novel series and promptly bought the kindle bundle.
Found Soulless in a mass market spinner rack at the small library in Monmouth, Oregon where I went to school in late 2009.
Soulless was my first as well, I can't remember exactly how I happened on it, but I think it was an amazon recommendation, and that led to a buy as soon as released (though now mostly ebooks due to space constraints (and ease of access).
I was in a B&N and came across Soulless. The premise seemed right up my alley as I like the supernatural and steampunk was a new interest of mine. So glad I risked the purchase. Have since completed the Parasol Protectorate series and the Finishing School series. Read FS recently and now have to re-read the PP to connect all of the crossover characters.
I found her books one summer while aimlessly wandering my library. The public library by me has a fantastic cafe in in it. During summer break I go once a week to find a book and get some lunch. Soulless was my first steampunk book and I fell in love with the genre.
Brandy wrote: "... I hate the cover for the first book in the Parasol Protectorate series (her positioning weirds me out) ..."I agree about the cover model! She's in a weird contortionist position...
An ex-friend recommended her. I read/listened to the finishing school series and I was hooked! I love Gail’s books!
IIRC, I found out about Gail at Balticon 2010 (Baltimore), where she was appearing as a panelist. A bookseller at the con was carrying Soulless so I bought it (despite the odd-looking cover model ;-) and loved it!! I've been a fan ever since, of pretty much everything she writes (not crazy about the Finishing School books for some reason, but everything else, yessss). Unfortunately, I was too shy/in awe to approach Gail at the con...
A dramatization of the library scene from Soulless was added as an "episode" to several of the podcasts I was listening to at the time. No longer recall which ones specifically. Still wish they'd all been done in that format.
Ditto on the dramatized audio tidbit - I heard it at the end of an episode of “I Should Be Writing” (one of Mur Lafferty’s podcasts). I simply had to know what happened next and bought the book at once.
I had Soulless on my bookshelf for quite a few years before I actually read it - not out of lack of interest, but rather due to having been in grad school when I acquired it (I can't remember at this point whether I bought it myself or if someone gave it to me). I'm currently on something like my 4th re-read of The Parasol Protectorate series. I decided that this year was a good one for wrapping myself up in the comfort of a complete reread of all the Parasolverse books (including novellas and short stories, obviously). I think it was my third time rereading the Finishing School series, and I'm VERY excited for my first reread of The Custard Protocol!
