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Originally Posted by JWBear
If you like vampires and steampunk, I have a book series for you! The author is Gail Carriger, and the first book is called Soulless. The byline is "A novel of vampires, werewolves, and parasols." It has a plucky lady of impeccable manners, a handsome werewolf, high society vampires, and is set in an alternate steampunkish Victorian London. It's a delightfully frothy read!
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I'm starting in on the 3rd book. They are very enjoyable. A comedy of manners with dark undercurrents.
It also reminds one that a well equipped parasol can be most efficacious when one finds oneself in bothersome circumstances concerning danger to ones dignity.
And yes, SM, there are...
eh-em... gentlemen of peculiar sensibilities; as well as an eccentric inventorix with a scandalous predilection for men's clothing. (and if that's not bad enough, she's
French!)