"Laugh out loud funny and refreshingly different, Soulless kept me turning pages well into the night. I enjoyed every minute of this wonderfully unexpected twist on paranormals." – Angie Fox, New York Times Bestselling author of The Accidental Demon Slayer and The Dangerous Book for Demon Slayers.

An Alexia Tarabotti novel

Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she is being rudely attacked by a vampire to whom she has not been properly introduced!

Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire, and the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate. With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible.

Can she figure out what is actually happening to London's high society?

Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing?

Who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart?

It is either Jane Austen does paranormal, or P. G. Wodehouse does steampunk.

Published
October 2, 2009
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I first actually noticed this book on the frontpage of Risingshadow and the description catched my eye. When I finally got my hands on this one and took a crack at it, it was everything it said itself to be and more.

It was funny, the characters were likable and the ending was to my liking.
BUT, for those of faint heart, this book should really come with an age rating for sexual content. Yeah, I was expecting historic urban fantasy and what I got was steampunkish comedy, with mystery and action with minimal blood, considering the messy werewolves, and a very steamy romance that didn't leave me disappointed in the end.
I've seen the guy meets a girl, guy falls in love and girl leaves/dies/looses her memory too many times to think it romantic. And this one time there was actually a girl meets a man, there is a hedgehog, they bicker for a few years, steamyness ensues, they get married and continue to stay married so that they can bicker some more.

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