Soulless, by Gail Carriger

[sienamystic]

Bought the first and second book on a whim, and just finished the first one today. The phrase, "a quick, fun romp" springs to mind. The writing is a little scatty at times, and dear god, if you're trying to at least attempt a mock-historical tone, having a proper young woman exclaim, "Gee!" and "Uh-oh" really distracts. Still, the heroine is fun, the hero is sexy, the storyline moves along quickly and in a satisfying way. I don't, however, feel the urge to immediately plunge into the rest of the series, because I have doubts about whether or not they'll be good. Any opinions?

Comments

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

I read the first and decided not to bother with any more. I did finish it, though. So - better than some, but not very good.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think as I was reading along, I was thinking to myself that this was fun, but had only just barely passed whatever benchmark I have for "will read." And I have my doubts that things get better.

[handyhunter.livejournal.com]

The ending of book 2 seems to piss off a lot of people, self included (though not to a huge extent, probably because I was spoiled for what happened), but I like the characters enough to continue with the series. It's pretty much more of the same, tone and writing-wise.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

I peeked at the ending before returning the second book, and it did tick me off, so I think I'll finish the rest as library books.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

It was fun until the tale end of the second, which was so horrific that I've even passed on free opportunities for the third.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I peeked and...yeah. Hmmph.

[graygirl.livejournal.com]

They're fun. The end of the second one annoyed me and the third one annoyed me throughout--had trouble believing the big plot point, based on the characters we'd met in book one. But, I'll be reading the last two, too.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

I think I will end up reading them, just not buying them, because I reread a lot and try to only buy/keep books that I'll go back.

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

The series is spotty as hell. The first one is the best, the second is awful, the third is a slight improvement, and the fourth holds to the level of the third. I am not hopeful about five.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

The library it is!

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

I got two books in and had the same issue with the clunky anachronistic dialog. Also, it sounds as if the hero spends most of book 3 being annoyingly stupid.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I peeked at the end of book 2 and was not really excited about continuing.