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Gail Carriger

In Which Gail Carriger’s The Parasol Protectorate, Book the Third: Blameless Is Reviewed

September 1, 2010
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A Word of Caution: While every effort has been made to ensure the minimization of the prevalence of spoilers and their harmful effects, they are impossible to avoid all together, this being a review of the third in a series.  Therefore, if you have not yet had the pleasure of partaking in Soulless or Changeless, [...]

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In Which Gail Carriger’s The Parasol Protectorate, Book the Second: Changeless Is Reviewed

March 12, 2010
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A Word of Caution: While every effort has been made to ensure the minimization of the prevalence of spoilers and their harmful effects, they are impossible to avoid all together, this being a review of the second in a trilogy.  Therefore, if you have not yet had the pleasure of partaking in Soulless, by one [...]

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The 10 Best Books I Read in 2009

January 2, 2010
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10) The Somnambulist & The Domino Men by Jonathan Barnes The Somnambulist and The Domino Men are both beautifully composed pastiches of classic genre tropes. The Somnambulist is an homage to the Victorian penny dreadful…The Domino Men is Lovecraftian in nature. While both are meticulous literary exercises, The Domino Men holds together more soundly, structurally speaking. [...]

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In Which Gail Carriger’s The Parasol Protectorate, Book the First: Soulless Is Reviewed

July 1, 2009
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Alexia Tarabotti seems to have been blessed or cursed with an overabundance of the ingredients that make the typical Victorian spinster. She reads far too much, she is too smart for her own good, she is neither docile nor demure, and she is not particularly beautiful. In fact, she is such a lost cause that [...]

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