Miss Primrose Tunstell begins her adventures in Competence by stealing helium to save her airship. Her scheme involves a lovesick werelioness and a fish tail. Once the crew fixes the leak, fills the helium bladders, and tops off the coal stocks, Prim receives a message about a novel kind of vampire in Peru. The journey that follows involves navigation errors and pirates. During the journey, she ponders some of the more serious questions in this alternative Victorian world. Can a perfect book club return a person’s soul? Can she get her brother, Percy, to stop wearing that ridiculous fez? Can the right amount of lard in a Christmas pudding save an entire race of vampires?
The third book of The Custard Protocol shifts attention from Captain Prudence Alessandra Maccon Akeldama (Rue to her friends) to her best friend, one Miss Primrose Tunstell, or Prim. As with the previous two books, Gail Carriger has written Competence in the same tongue-in-cheek manner complete stereotypical Victorian mannerisms. While not my primary genre, I do like steampunk as a change of pace. What did everyone else think.
The third book of The Custard Protocol shifts attention from Captain Prudence Alessandra Maccon Akeldama (Rue to her friends) to her best friend, one Miss Primrose Tunstell, or Prim. As with the previous two books, Gail Carriger has written Competence in the same tongue-in-cheek manner complete stereotypical Victorian mannerisms. While not my primary genre, I do like steampunk as a change of pace. What did everyone else think.