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A Delightfully Deadly Novel
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Gail Carriger
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New York Times best-selling author Gail Carriger brings you a charming story of love, espionage, and Gothic makeovers set in her popular Parasolverse.
Narrated by the wonderful Emma Newman.
Spy...
Dimity Plumleigh-Teignmott, code name Honey Bee, is the War Office's best and most decorative fixer. She's sweet and chipper, but oddly stealthy, and surprisingly effective given the right incentives.
Versus knight...
Sir Crispin Bontwee was knighted for his military service, but instead of retiring, he secretly went to work for the War Office. Mostly he enjoys his job, except when he must safeguard the Honey Bee. Neither of them are vampire experts, but when Nottingham Hive goes badly Goth, only Dimity can stop their darkness from turning bloody. And only Crispin can stop an enthusiastic Dimity from death by vampire.
In a battle for survival (and wallpaper), Dimity must learn that not all that sparkles is good, while Cris discovers he likes honey a lot more than he thought.
Spinning off from the Finishing School series, featuring deadly ladies of quality, this story stands alone but chronologically follows Poison or Protect. It's Cold Comfort Farm meets Queer Eye meets What We Do In the Shadows from the author of the Parasol Protectorate books, perfect for fans of Julia Quinn, Jodi Taylor, or Meljean Brook.
Delicate sensibilities? Contains fraternizing vampires and one very curious young lady, who asks about it, sometimes in detail, but mostly in retrospect. May also involve excessive use of velvet, melodramatic poetry, and the strategic application of interpretive ballet.
©2020 Gail Carriger LLC (P)2020 Gail Carriger LLCLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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I also really loved the way Justice was handled as a character, and of course seeing little cameos of Lord Maccon and Pillover, and mentions of Sophronia and Soap, Sidheag, and Agatha!
The narrator did very well, but sometimes her voice changes were a little subtle for me to catch which character was speaking, and there were a few places where she said the wrong character's name in a scene or seemed to stumble over a word, but nothing major and it didn't really pull me out of the story.
Delightful indeed!
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so much fun!
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Good communication between the lead characters.
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so enjoy these characters
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Soothing and sweet
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nice follow up book to a favorite series
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DELIGHTFUL DRONES
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fun
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I such a way, she turns around an abject hive of vampires who have allowed a bully of a drone to make them miserable, in a bad way. Since most of them prefer being preformatively miserable, they weren’t equipped excise the bully.
Everything goes really smoothly because Dimity’s skill is smoothing over rough spots. So even when things don’t actually go smoothly, Dimity fixes everything so it feels smooth anyway. And Cris helps make things go. It’s a Ted Lasso season 1 experience - every time you’re braced for inevitable disaster, people are nice to each other instead. (Except the main bully, but even he gets dealt with.) Which is to say, if, like me, you’d like a story of things getting fixed & people feeling better, and a pleasant romance, this is a great choice.
There are some appearances of other series characters. And despite blood drinking vampires, werewolves, and secret agents who make this better rather than worse, the real suspension of disbelief is needed for the fast lead times & efficient supply chains allowing Dimity’s housekeeping miracle to occur.
Steam: Low. Not much happens on page or in detail, but is talked about with specifics and known to happen. There’s both the M/F main couple and a M/tF pairing. (“Well who wouldn’t want to lend their peignoir for a seduction in the woods?” paraphrase of Dimity after Justice literally runs off in her stolen nightwear.🤣) High focus on consent & caring.
Narration: Quite good except that some of the funnier lines are a bit lugubriously delivered. So it doesn’t, well, sparkle quite as much as I think it could in a few places, making it harder to catch the irreverent humor than with other narrators. MQ made it seem like we were in on the joke. Here, Emma played it straighter, which isn’t my preference, but it wasn’t bad. Unlike most, I didn’t find the slight pronunciation change to some of the names, compared to previous narrators, to be concerning or difficult. The sound quality was even and good.
How to win friends & influence vampires
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Delightful frilly perfection
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