Soulless Book Review

Title: Soulless

Author: Gail Carriger

Genre: Steampunk, Supernatural, Victorian England, Action/Adventure, Romance,

Plot: In a steampunk world populated by fashionable people by day and werewolves, ghosts and vampires by night, one Alexia Tarabtti is about to make several waves in her little social circle. Born without a soul and with the unpopular tan complexion of her dead Italian father, Alexia was put on the shelf at fifteen and spent her youth reading the fascinating books in her father's library. Now twenty-six, Alexia is a force to be recounted with and proves it by single-handedly killing a strange vampire who was bent on attacking her - and without an introduction no less!

This incident thrusts Alexia in the path of Lord Maccon, a Scottish werewolf who rapidly rose to power in the London area and commands the London branch of BUR - Bureau of Unnatural Registry which is a division of the queen's Civil Service. Having known each other for a few years now, Alexia and Lord Maccon are none too pleased to be mixed up in each other's company for long and fiery arguments abound. But with danger lurking in the shadows and the full moon just around the corner, things might get more than just a little steamy.

Likes/Dislikes: This was my first official steam-punk novel. I've been nosing around the genre for awhile now and picked quite the book to dive into. I was a little worried it would be weird - vampires and werewolves aren't really my thing, though I would take a werewolf story over a vampire one if given the choice. But aside from some distracting references to the vampires being gay, it wasn't nearly as dark and weird as I thought it would be. Instead, I was treated to some delicious {and very distracting} steamy scenes between our hotheaded hero and heroine. Teenage me would've burned the book but being married and having had a hospital birth did wonders for me in that regard, *wink* I still didn't much like the gay vampires though or the lengthy science experiment by the bad guys. And the carriage scene at the end was sadly anti-climatic to me.

Rating: PG-18 and up, mainly for content {a grand total of four steamy scenes that progressively got steamier toward the end, interesting little tid-bits of innuendo, gay vampires running around and a bloody torture scene/end battle}. Recommended for mature readers only.

Date Review Written: October 27th 2015