Steampunk slapstick comedy with supernatural characters. That is the most succinct description I can come up with to describe Gail Carriger's "Parasol Protectorate" series. Blameless is the third book, and though it was not as good as Soulless, I did like it a little better than Changeless. The weakest part for me was the "science" of Alexia's soullessness, which I didn't really care to read about, and the DIRE lack of Lord Akeldama. The middle lagged for me but picked up towards the end. Thankfully, Alexia's inventor/scientist friend Madame Lefoux (hands down my least favorite character in Changeless) was not nearly as annoying as she was in the previous novel. I see that Lefoux is here to stay so I might as well get used to her. As with her previous novels, I expected Blameless to be a lot of fun, and Carriger did not disappoint. 
 Now, onto things out of Carriger's control. I never was a big fan of the covers but I do like the cover for Blameless, which has, in my opinion, the best cover of the series. And in response to a job well done, it looks like Orbit decided to actively come up with the ugliest possible covers that grow exponentially uglier with each successive book, ja?