![]() ![]() The Indecisive Cheese Theory of series fiction Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires - and they're armed with pesto.īLAMELESS is the third book of the Parasol Protectorate series: a comedy of manners set in Victorian London, full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking. ![]() While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London's vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead. Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. Claims to have gone up against a werewolf or two in the boxing ring.Quitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season in the third book of the NYT bestselling Parasol Protectorate series.I wouldn't want to be in your spats right now.' 'Don't get personal, Haverbink.' 'Course not, sir." ( Blameless, Chapter Fourteen) "You better believe if she thought she were in the right, she'd be squawking official statements to the press like a hen laying eggs." ( Blameless, Chapter Fourteen).It was a mistake." ( Blameless, Chapter Fourteen) He looked a bit like a farmhand, and people didn't give a man of his brawn much credit in the way of brain. And no one would bet a ha'penny on his having excess soul, but he listened well and got around to places more aristocratic types couldn't. "Haverbink was a good solid chap in both looks and spirit.But, showing he did indeed have experience working with the supernatural set, he respected his superior's pride and did not even try to assist him with an arm." ( Soulless, Chapter Seven) "The hugely muscled young man looked like he would prefer to simply pick the Beta up and carry him out to the street, relieving the werewolf of his obvious distress." Ivy, what a positively wicked thing to say. "Ah, for the countryside, what scenery there abides., " quoth she. Miss Hisselpenny sighed and fluttered her fan. Haverbink bowed deeply, muscles rippling all up and down his back, and lumbered from the room. Gone up against a couple in the boxing ring once or twice, so do not worry yourself on that account." ( Soulless, Chapter Seven) Not interested in being a claviger either, so I shan't ever become one. He was the type of good farming stock that, when the oxen collapsed from exhaustion, picked up the plow, strapped himself to it, and finished tilling the fields by hand." ( Soulless, Chapter Seven) What origins his cultivated speech left in doubt, his physical appearance demonstrated. Haverbink was an extraoridanrily large and thuglike man of working-class extraction. Haverbink comes into the BUR office as Biffy is resting from his metamorphoses to report to Professor Lyall information coming in throughout London. ![]() Haverbink arrives at Miss Tarabotti's residence to take over guard duty from Professor Lyall. Haverbink alludes that he may have been a boxer previously to being a BUR agent. He is described as having a good spirit and being on of Lord Maccon's best BUR agents. Haverbink is described as being a "large and thug-like man of working-class extraction." ( Soulless, Chapter Seven) He is said to be very muscular with a neck the size of a tree. ![]()
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