Soulless’ other great strength is its appealing cast of characters. A few passages strain too hard for effect - would anyone have really chosen “comestibles” over “food” when complaining about a party? - but for the most part, Carriger finds a convincing tone that’s neither faux-archaic nor casually contemporary. The characters’ peppery exchanges are an affectionate parody of British costume dramas substitute “soulless” for “penniless,” and Alexia could easily be a character in Sense and Sensibility. Some of that success can be attributed to the dialogue.
Given how many genres are present in the text - it’s a crime procedural, a thriller, an urban fantasy, a comedy of manners, and a bodice ripper - it’s astonishing how well all the tropes mesh. The greatest of these hurdles isn’t her name or her age, however it’s Alexia’s firm conviction that marriage should not be a socially or financially expedient union, but a true partnership. Alexia would make a swell Austen heroine, as she faces the kind of obstacles to marriage that would elicit sympathy from the Dashwood girls and Fanny Price. What they discover in the course of their investigation is a grand conspiracy worthy of an Indiana Jones movie, complete with evil scientists, vampire “hives,” sinister-looking laboratories, and a golem all that’s missing is the Ark of the Covenant and a few Nazi generals.Īt the same time, Soulless is a romance. The basic storyline is a whodunnit: Alexia becomes the prime suspect in a string of supernatural disappearances around London, and must collaborate with Lord Collan Maccon, a belligerent werewolf detective, to clear her name. Plot-wise, Soulless is an agreeable mishmash of Young Sherlock Holmes, Underworld, and Mansfield Park, with a dash of Jules Verne for good measure. Alexia has one additional strike against her, albeit one that doesn’t affect her marriageability: she’s soulless, a “preternatural” being who can neutralize the vampires and werewolves’ power, temporarily reducing them to mortal form. As she would in the real nineteenth-century England, Alexia faces pressure to marry, a prospect complicated by her age - she’s twenty-six - her ethnicity - her father was Italian - and her prodigious intellect. Your welcome.Soulless is saucy in the best possible sense of the word: it’s bold and smart, with a heroine so irrepressible you can see why author Gail Carriger couldn’t tell Alexia Tarabotti’s story in just one book.Īs fans of Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate novels know, Alexia is a sharp-tongued woman living in Victorian London - or rather, a steampunk version of Victorian London in which vampires and werewolves co-exist with the “daylight” (read: “human”) world. Take the self-sustaining sailboat pill and leave society. I guess because it wasnt a transgender queer nobinary black mulatto lady who spoke spanish, it was therefore a fascist mod. I got interrogated and called a fascist for wanting to make a Belgium mod, that lets you play as a regular belgian soldier. For example WWII games are FILLED with bigtime queers now. Its hard to deal with these people IRL, and its hard on here.
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