Hello people, if you’ve read Soulless and Changeless by Gail Carriger, this might make sense to you.

My friends haven’t all read Blameless yet so I am resorting to post my SQUEE here. This will have spoilers after the more cut. However, for those who are going to read this, I have prepared you a menu. I have not included what the werewolves and vampires are eating for obvious reasons.

If Alexia is not smacking things with her parasol, she surely is eating!

Blameless: The Menu

Chapter 1

Kippers, soft boiled eggs, fried eggs, sausages, scones, toast with a choice of butter or marmalade and barley water

Chapter 3 and 4

Toast and tea

Chapter 5

Large leaf Assam tea* (Favourite of Alexia’s)

Chapter 6

Bland food cooked over steam engine – Porridge?

Raw vegetables (crudités) such as carrots, red bell peppers, asparagus spears and celery sticks, meat pâté, nutty digestive biscuits served with weak tea

Chapter 8

Croissants, basket of kumquats served with Earl Grey tea,

For lunch: Roasted winter vegetables, fruit, cold poultry, fluffy crispy bread such as sliced baguettes, flaky pastry served with tea and milk.

Chapter 10

Sliced melon, apple, ciabatta bread, hard sharp cheese served with coffee. Honey and milk available* (preference of Madame Lefoux’s for her coffee)

Chapter 11

Pesto, cantaloupe and prosciutto ham.

Chapter 13

Apples, bruschetta and hard boiled eggs with pesto

Chapter 15

Pesto spaghetti pasta

And now onwards to where I squee.

I would like to start by quoting Squire Herbert Loontwill:

I have died and gone to the land of bad novels.

Ahh! Blameless isn’t bad at all because it’s so good that it can make fun of such happenings in romance novels! We start off with the scene of her at the dining table and really, you can check that scene out in the previews of Amazon. Oh my goodness! It is certainly a good thing for Alexia to get away from her home when faced with such family and rubbishy butlers!

And then we realize that Lord Maccon is drunk and Professor Lyall is just soo, sooo proper. He’s so rather swoony. Lyall, that is but nonetheless we find out what he is a professor. BAA INDEED! BWUAHAHAHA. Argh, arrgh! Tons more of Madame Lefoux! A FAVOURITE OF MINE INDEED.

Also, it seems that Ivy is not what she seems. She is SCARY. I daresay even with her hats, she can be likened to a spy! She must have freaked Lyall out by how much she knows (just not too much so she’s not in much danger). Only Lyall being Lyall, he just looked all casual about it. Ivy is very much resourceful!

Anyway, I am so pleased with Floote’s non-verbal frowniness at Madame Lefoux’s actions to Alexia.

And her moustache too. It must be so ridiculous yet fun to wear.

Meanwhile, Gail Carriger is NOT A TEASE (in a good way)!! What we saw in book 2 about Biffy and Lyall! OH MY! WHAT DRAMA TO BE HAD NOW! I know, I am probably typing in a mix of what Ivy and Akeldama would say. Tell me who didn’t see what was happening with Akeldama when the “potent gentleman” got off-ed? It’s like everything is setting up for Alexia’s ease. HEH, HEH.

My reactions when I finished the book? I went all “OHHHHHHHHHH!” for this third book is like the main kickstarter of what the Parasol Protectorate is!

And that it didn’t end like a cliffhanger as Changeless but it wasn’t a full one off like Soulless. Blameless’ ending is like a pitstop before more things happen. It ended at a nice point where you won’t go screaming, like a nice rest point as you wait for July 2011 and pick up the adventure once more! Thank goodness there’s been announcements that the series will go on for more books! Huzzah for us! Huzzah for Gail writing it!

Now, I wait for the rest of my friends to finish the book so I can squee at them in real life.