Agent: Kristin Nelson, Nelson Literary Agency. Gail Carriger’s booksbeginning with Soulless, the first book in the Parasol Protectorate seriesmake it a fantasy. At the tail-end of the first series, we got a glimpse of. Series fans will enjoy this mischievous romp, which revisits old favorites while raising a new crop of charming characters. Steampunk is usually a science fiction subgenre in which the author invents plausible but impossible things to do with nineteenth-century science and technology. Prudence is the first in the Custard Protocol series, Gail Carriger’s highly anticipated follow-up to her Parasol Protectorate series.

Carriger maintains a droll, tongue-in-cheek tone, and her protagonists are as concerned with witty banter and fashionable hats as they are with fighting for their lives. Fortunately for her, there’s never any sense of real danger. In a madcap adventure of manners, Rue veers from one threat to the next, always trying to maintain her dignity and composure. She and her friends set off on a gaudy dirigible, only to run headfirst into danger, intrigue, and local politics. Rue, who can borrow the traits of any supernatural creature she touches, yearns for excitement and leaps at the chance to journey to India in search of a superior type of tea for her adoptive father, a wealthy vampire. Twenty-year-old Prudence “Rue” Akeldama and her best friend, Primrose Tunstell, have grown up in a version of Victorian England filled with vampires and werewolves.

Carriger ( Waistcoats and Weaponry) introduces fans of her Parasol Protectorate world to the next generation of madcap supernatural entities with the fluffy first Custard Protocol novel.

Prudence by gail carriger