![]() Walking stereotypes - caricatures - their presence never failed to make me cringe. Lord Akeldama and his drones have always been problematic figures in the books. Alas, it is not the case, because in this beautiful gem of a book, we have a glaring flaw that we cannot ignore. If this was the end of the review, I’d even now be joyously pasting 5 Fangs at the bottom and rhapsodising some more in conclusion. It really comes to a point where it’s hard to adequately praise the positive elements of this book without just gushing and repeating superlative adjectives until I get dizzy from the fanpoodling You can believe the setting and it feels real. I have never before read a Paranormal Steampunk that has such an evocative sense of Victorian era London. ![]() And though it’s a repetition of what we’ve said in past reviews, we’d still be wrong not to praise this book for its excellent impression of time and place. Again, I laughed out loud and again I spent most of the book chuckling away. Lord Maccon’s wasn’t in this book a great deal but I still love his exasperation with the world around him that has been heavily Alexia’d.Īnd, of course, this series is screamingly funny. I love many of the side-characters - Ivy Tunstel’s acceptance of Alexia’s status and induction into the Parasol Protectorate made me laugh out loud. ![]() I never guessed at some of the revelations, was surprised and fascinated and am left hungry for even more. We have some wonderful world building and insight into Alexia’s father, the Woolsey pack’s history and so much more of this fascinating and complicated world. I was sure I had figured out the truth before the end and then turned out to be very wrong. The story is exciting and has many twists in it. Often in Urban Fantasy a strong female character is depicted with extreme skills or super powers - Alexia Maccon needs neither to be strong and awesome. I love how, even in the most extreme circumstances, she is calm, collected and snarky - and I love just how screamingly funny she is.Īnd she doesn’t have to be super woman to be all this, her powers are not extensive or miraculous, certainly not in comparison to her supernatural companions. I love how she forges through society doing things her way no matter what. I love the thinly veiled wariness the other characters regard her with. I adore the stress and and conniptions she causes all around her. She’s independent, she’s strong, she’s intelligent and she’s fierce. As you may well imagine, vampires and werewolves do not make happy bedfellows.Īs ever, except for some problems we’ll mention later, Alexia Maccon is one of the best protagonists in Urban Fantasy. Her investigation takes many interesting turns, including inducting Ivy Tunstel nee Hisslepenny into the ancient- well, rather new order of the Parasol Protectorate, investigating the attempt on the Queen’s life 15 years ago that involved Lord Maccon’s old pack and finding that absolutely nothing was what it seemsĪnd then she finds herself in the extremely tricky position of playing host to a vampire hive of all things. Naturally, as Muhjah to Queen Victoria, she takes this very seriously indeed. The ghosts of London come to her with a warning - someone is trying to kill the Queen. of course, Alexia is a master of disruption - in causing it at least.īeing on rather more polite terms with the Vampire hives, she finds herself pursuing a new mystery. Having her child adopted by Lord Akeldama, and rather disrupting her own domestic arrangements to be near it. The constant murder attempts are really quite tiresome and Alexia is left with a rather dramatic solution - adoption. But she has a bothersome problem - the vampire hives still want her dead because of the child she carries. Alexia Maccon, La Diva Tarabotti is back in London and heavily pregnant. ![]() Our favourite urban fantasy heroine is back. ![]()
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