Soulless by Gail Carriger

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Soulless by Gail Carriger

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Victorian steampunk romance. Like you do.



One of those things I like as long as I don’t think about it too hard. It also probably helped to read it during a week as gut awful as this one (put it this way, when the best thing you can say is “well, it isn’t actually blood coming out of my eye, you need a do-over).



Aaanyway. This is a silly bit of fluff in a tinfoil steampunk wrapper. Vague stabs at a Heyer-like wit and style, with, uh, mixed results. Add a lot of anachronisms, a weirdly unsexy romance, and a vague sense that it’s all not quite as charming as it’s supposed to be, and you’ve got it. It was all saved by the heroine, who is practical to a fault, and then a little extra on top. And also the unusual attention to the romance as a two-sided apparatus, and how these two odd people actually fit together, rather than relying only on the groin shorthand (though there’s a lot of that, too).



…It was a really bad week.





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