How Victorious is the Victorious Parasol?
- - October 6th, 2009
Gail Carriger’s debut novel SOULLESS (the first volume in The Parasol Protectorate) went on sale last week. Readers have been awaiting this one since the buzz began this past spring. Publishers Weekly called it ‘intoxicatingly witty.” Romantic Times gave it four and a half stars. Time’s Lev Grossman, blurbing the book, called it “ravishing” and said that it has “all the delicate charm of a Victorian parasol, and all the wicked force of a Victorian parasol secretly weighted with brass shot and expertly wielded.”
Pretty good for a start. Now that it’s out in the stores, what are people saying?
SFRevu : “I was enchanted from start to finish.”
Falcata Times:“It’s a corker and definitely something that’s new in the field that I suspect will win Gail fans by the bucketload.”
![3GailCarrigerCream[1]](http://www.orbitbooks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/3GailCarrigerCream12-300x199.jpg "Gail Carriger, with tea")
Photo by Robert Andruszko
The verdict. Extremely victorious, and getting more so every day.
Oh, and don’t forget to pick up a piece of treacle tart on your way back from the bookstore.
Tags: Gail Carriger
Jessica Kennedy
October 6, 2009
at 8:27 am
Couldn’t agree more!
Robert Andruszko
October 6, 2009
at 1:50 pm
Wow, who shot that wonderful picture?
Robert Andruszko
October 6, 2009
at 1:51 pm
314 pages in, and I am sad I will have to wait so long to continue this gripping series!
April
October 6, 2009
at 9:15 pm
As another sign of victory, Powell’s sold out or something and now I need to place my order again somewhere else.
Go Gail!
Steve
October 7, 2009
at 3:44 pm
I am really enjoying this novel. It is witty with a quick pace and a very engaging main character who has a personality that leaps off the page.