{"id":1634,"date":"2012-12-18T16:56:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T16:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2015-04-04T19:49:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T19:49:21","slug":"soulless-by-gail-carriger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1634","title":{"rendered":"Soulless by Gail Carriger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1647\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Soulless.jpg\" alt=\"Soulless\" width=\"110\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alexia Tarabotti is a 25-year-old spinster in Victorian London. \u00a0She also has no soul; her father is Italian and dead; and she was attacked by a vampire in the library during a social event. \u00a0As if that were not bad enough, she finds herself working with the disturbingly handsome werewolf, Lord Conall Maccon, to determine who is creating vampires outside of vampire hive rules.<\/p>\n<p>This is\u00a0a witty blend of the supernatural, steampunk, alternative history and romance.\u00a0 Alexia&#8217;s spirit is engaging, and the clever plot will keep readers enthralled. \u00a0Happily, <em>Soulless<\/em> is the first in a series of Alexia Tarabotti mysteries, which appear under the name of The Parasol Protectorate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexia Tarabotti is a 25-year-old spinster in Victorian London. \u00a0She also has no soul; her father is Italian and dead; and she was attacked by a vampire in the library during a social event. \u00a0As if that were not bad enough, she finds herself working with the disturbingly handsome werewolf, Lord Conall Maccon, to determine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1634\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Soulless by Gail Carriger<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-barbara-h"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}