![]() ![]() Because it seemed rather… colonial, in how it addressed the actual population of India. Certainly not coffee.Īnd this is the point at which my guilt-free enjoyment of the series stuttered to a bit of a halt. ![]() ![]() As only Carriger could make it, this intrigue is about tea: in Steampunked Britain, there is little more important than the life-giving brew. ![]() Prudence is clever, curious and skilled in intelligence gathering (Akeldama runs one of the finest spy rings in the world).Įntering the world of the Parasol Protectorate some seventeen years after the last book about Alessandra, Prudence purloins a suspicious snuffbox, is gifted by her father Lord Akeldama with a state-of-the-art bright dirigible painted in ladybug red and black, and sets forth on a mission of intrigue… to India. The titular Prudence (Rue) is the daughter of three people: a soulless half-Italian woman Lady Alessandra Maccon, her husband the werewolf, Lord Connall Maccon, and their friend the supremely gay and fashionable vampire Lord Akeldama. The prose is frothy and bubbling with wit and amusing one liners, as I’ve come to appreciate from the author of these fantastic comedies of manners. Prudence is everything I love in a Gail Carriger novel, from the wingtips of its illustrious series title (Custard Protocol! It’s better than Parasol Protectorate!), to the soles of its hobnailed, steampunk boots. ![]()
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