Blameless by Gail Carriger

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Blameless by Gail Carriger

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


The Indecisive Cheese Theory of series fiction



See, it’s like when you’re handed a new kind of cheese, right? And you take a nibble and you think, “huh! Cheese! Yeah, okay. Kinda creamy, a little light, nice steampunk flavor as it finishes. I like it!”



So you take a bigger bite, and you think, “well, but hang on, there was something a bit funny going on with the aftertaste. And that sex scene was just absurd. I don’t like that . . . I think?”



But you’re not sure, so you take another bite, because at this point you’ve got to figure it out. And you think, “actually, you know, that’s kind of nice. Zing with the one-liners, and the cross-dressing lesbian inventor is great, and all that stuff about how our heroine doesn’t magically get maternal instincts just because she’s pregnant. I like it!’



So you take another bite, and you’re like, “. . . wait, shit. That was clumsy and it pulled the emotional punch -- do I like that?”



Yeah. This series is indecisive cheese. And this book is the one I’m making “wait . . . hang on . . . not sure” faces over.





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Comments

[jenett]

I was meh about Blameless, but I liked Heartless, which just came out, quite a lot better.

[crossedwires]

I think I liked the fourth book, Heartless, best so far.