Reviews

Sin alma by Gail Carriger

breezy610's review against another edition

5.0

Very good. I really enjoyed this book and i can't wait until i get my hand on the couple of books that come out. the only thing i didn't like about this book was her Family, always putting her down because she was itlian and past the marrying age. I hope they get what is coming to them in the end.

alinkapralinka's review against another edition

5.0

My life makes sense again...I have a new book series.

cactusbby's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

vaingloriouspoopweasel's review against another edition

5.0

Love it

I'm pretty sure this book was tailor written for me. All my favorite guilty pleasures combined! Victorian romance and supernatural mysteries... And the main character's name is only a letter off from mine. On point.

alittleshy's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Here are some off-the-cuff thoughts about the work, now that I've finished it. 

• I generally enjoyed myself.  The characters were likeable and the setting was a novel one for me as a reader.  I occasionally found all the manners business a bit tiring, but the story is set in the Victorian era so I can hardly complain.  Complaining a work set in Victorian Britain delves deep into manners is like complaining a microbiology textbook is too focused on the cell.  It'd be, in a word, silly.
• I was a bit worried about the appearance of
  the automaton
  , because I initially thought it was
  a golem
  and that there'd be some
  low-key anti-Semitism
  in the work.  As near as I can tell, those fears were unfounded.
• I'm glad that the work didn't end with
  Lord Akeldama's death
  , because he is the clearest
  queer representation
  in the work.  I'm pretty over the
  "bury your gays"
  trope, frankly. 
• I listened to the audiobook, and the performer does an admirable job voicing the various cast members.  With that being said, it sounds like something akin to ADR was occasionally used.  This is an assumption on my part, but every once and a while its like the performer is using a different microphone or is in a different room. 
• There is an intimate scene in the prologue; it was fine (and relatively brief).  If that's what you're reading for, though, you'll probably be disappointed. 
• This isn't related to the "review," but apparently this series also has three volumes of manga?  Go figure.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Medical trauma

timinbc's review against another edition

4.0

Great fun! Did you like Gaiman's "Stardust"? The movie too, especially De Niro's pirates? Then you'll like this. Incredibly, some reviewers here seemed to have missed that You Are Not Supposed To Take This Seriously, and that it is not trying for a Nobel Prize in Literature. It's here to make you go har-de-har-har just as your spouse was almost asleep.

Wonderful characters, most with wonderfully overdrawn personalities. A decent plot to hang it on, although I think we're meant to just enjoy the scenes. Some over-the-top characters, but some stable ones to balance them.

This is not a book for your ten-year-old, though. There's some sex, and it's more than just waves breaking on a beach. There's some fairly unpleasant stuff when the Bad Guys get to be front and centre for a while.

Readers should also have read some Victorian stuff already, to understand some of the social things mentioned here. You can pick them up, but it's more fun if you realize that yes, these *were* the attitudes of the day and she's playing with them.

I'm going to pick up the next one as soon as I can.

tregina's review against another edition

2.0

So very hard to know what to do with this one. On one hand I kind of enjoyed it, and thought the variation on vampire lore in particular was interesting. On the other, it really wasn't very good, on multiple levels (writing, characterisation, consistency). I will probably read the rest of the series because so much potential is there, even though I am constantly frustrated with how it's being handled.

kaitiecakes's review against another edition

1.0

This book was un-enjoyable and held no interest for me.

llfoofaye's review against another edition

4.0

A new series to love! How have I not heard of this before now?!

miseraya's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0