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Werewolves in Love

Romancing the Werewolf (Supernatural Society #2) by Gail Carriger

January 28, 2018 by faintingviolet 3 Comments

In some ways my CBR history is the history of my reading Gail Carriger books. The third book I ever reviewed for Cannonball was Carriger’s Soulless. Heck, it and the next three books in the Parasol Protectorate series make four of my first 10 reviews. Carriger showed back up in my reading in CBR6 as I started her Finishing School books (a prequel series) which spread out over Cannonballs 7 & 8. I am a big Carriger fan; I enjoy her online presence, and find the tempo of her writing fun and soothing. When last year I saw that her second novella in this universe was going to focus on the love story of two of my favorite supporting characters from the Parasol Protectorate books, Professor Lyall and Biffy, I preordered it to read at the end of CBR9. Of course, it ended up in the beginning of CBR10 instead because that’s just how I roll.

While this is a perfectly serviceable romance novella and an interesting piece of Carriger’s Steampunk Universe I made a mistake. In the Note on Chronology Carriger tells us readers that her Supernatural Society novellas can be read in any order, and that this book takes place chronologically after the events of Imprudence (in 1895), and ties romantically to events in Timeless. I focused on the Timeless portion of that sentence but I should have paid closer heed to the Imprudence part as I have read a sum total of zero of the Custard Protocol books which follow the Soulless books in chronological order.  I should have just gone and spoiled myself so the setup made more sense to me.

That said, this novella still has all the things I love about Carriger’s writing: her brand of humor, werewolves, vampires, fancy dress and hats, intrigue, and a quick little mystery to solve, and a peak into an alternate Victorian England. It also is a sweet romance between two characters who have been separated for a long time and aren’t sure what they are to each other anymore. Any time spent with Biffy and Lyall is time well spent. I wish there was a little more ahem, romance, in this novella, but I’ll take what I can get.

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Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Biffy, faintingviolet, Finishing School series, gail carriger, Parasol Protectorate, Professor Lyall, Romancing the Werewolf, Supernatural Society

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1/28/2018 faintingviolet's CBR10 Review No:5 |
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| Tags: Biffy, faintingviolet, Finishing School series, gail carriger, Parasol Protectorate, Professor Lyall, Romancing the Werewolf, Supernatural Society | Category: Fantasy, Fiction | 3 Comments

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  1. narfna says

    January 29, 2018 at 8:50 pm

    I need to catch up with her stuff! I’ve only read the first series.

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  2. Lane says

    January 30, 2018 at 12:20 am

    I hadn’t read the right books before hand but I enjoyed it as a sweet stand alone.

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    • faintingviolet says

      January 31, 2018 at 11:54 am

      I agree, it was a very sweet standalone. My completionist issues come roaring to the front in this review, but that’s my baggage and shouldn’t be a judgement on the book.

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