The Parasol Protectorate Boxed Set: Soulless, Changeless, Blameless, Heartless and Timeless Author: Visit Amazon's Gail Carriger Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0316212261 | Format: EPUB
The Parasol Protectorate Boxed Set: Soulless, Changeless, Blameless, Heartless and Timeless Description
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Praise for the Parasol Protectorate Series:
"Spectacular debut novel...a real page-turner."—
RT Book Reviews"Soulless is a character-driven romp with great worldbuilding and delicious rapier wit that recalls Austen and P.G. Wodehouse."—
io9.com"A delightfully fun supernatural comedy of manners, with a refreshing romance thrown in - and a highly promising first novel."—
Locus"Carriger debuts brilliantly with a blend of Victorian romance, screwball comedy of manners and alternate history. . . . This intoxicatingly witty parody will appeal to a wide cross-section of romance, fantasy and steampunk fans."—
Publishers Weekly"Soulless has all the delicate charm of a Victorian parasol, and all the wicked force of a Victorian parasol secretly weighted with brass shot and expertly wielded. Ravishing."—
Lev Grossman, New York Times Bestselling Author of The MagiciansAbout the Author
New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger writes to cope with being raised in obscurity by an expatriate Brit and an incurable curmudgeon. She escaped small town life and inadvertently acquired several degrees in Higher Learning. Ms. Carriger then traveled the historic cities of Europe, subsisting entirely on biscuits secreted in her handbag. She resides in the Colonies, surrounded by fantastic shoes, where she insists on tea imported from London.
The Parasol Protectorate books are:
Soulless, Changeless, Blameless, Heartless, and
Timeless.
Soulless won the ALA's Alex Award. A manga adaptation released in Spring 2012 and a young adult series set in the same universe -- the Finishing School series -- launched in Spring 2013. Gail is soon to begin writing a new adult series, The Parasol Protectorate Abroad (2015).
- Series: The Parasol Protectorate
- Paperback: 800 pages
- Publisher: Orbit (October 30, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0316212261
- ISBN-13: 978-0316212267
- Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 5.6 x 4.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
This author is very clever at creating amusing situations, describing derring-do, and presenting us with a detailed world in the steampunk style. I want to emphasize the strength of her world description because I'm going to spend a fair bit of time criticizing a different aspect of her writing that is weak.
It is through comparison to another adventure series in the steampunk sub-genre (Buroker's The Emperor's Edge series) that I have been able to pin-point that which has been bothering me about this series. In essence, I think her characters lack depth. Too much effort is spent painting a picture of the steampunk world (she really does a great job of that) and not enough making the characters and their relationships 3-D/believable. The characters are not themselves, they are merely a "type": the intelligent-and-plucky heroine, the gruff and dangerous hero, the hopeless eccentric friend, the debonair gentleman's second. in contrast, Lindsay Buroker's characters are more real to me and I think that's why I'm finding Carriger's stories less satisfying. I have no trouble imagining what Buroker's characters do, what they're thinking about, or how they're feeling when they are "off stage". Characters of Carriger's Parisol Protectorate are not so confidently imagined.
I have just spent a paragraph pinpointing the problem with the series which is quite unfair. It IS a good series: entertaining, fun, clever. I do not regret buying the set. Lots of fun books have stereotypical characters.
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