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Soulless by Gail Carriger

Urban Fantasy Book Club

Soulless Discussion Questions

1. Did you notice that it was 3^rd person narration in this book?
2. What do you think of Alexia Tarabotti?
3. What do you think of the beginning of the book when Alexia neutralizes a young vampire at a ball?
4. What do you think of Lord Conall Maccon?
5. What do you think of the Professor Lyall?
6. Did you know what the Earl and the Professor were right away?
7. What genre would you call this book?
8. What do you think of the vampire system of hives with queens and drones?
9. What do you think of the preternatural label or the idea of having no soul?
10. What do you think of the way that Alexia dealt with it by developing her own moral code?
11. Does the book feel like the 19^th century and what do you think of a 19^th century world where everyone knows about vampires and werewolves?
12. What do you think of Alexia’s family including her mother and the insipidly lovely younger half sisters?
13. What do you think of the steam punk aspects like airships?
14. What do you think of Lord Akeldama?
15. What do you think of the idea of BUR in Victorian England and Queen Victoria having a Shadow Parliament?
16. What do you think of the central mystery of the missing lone vampires and weres?
17. What did you think of Alexia’s visit to the vampire hive?
18. What did you think of her kidnapping by the wax man and his accomplice? What do you think the wax man is?
19. What do you think of Lord Maccon kissing Alexia?
20. What do you think of the American Mr. MacDougall?
21. What do you think of the way that she intertwines real history with vampires for example the Puritans leaving to get away from vampires or vampires siding with the South in the Civil War?
22. What do you think of the idea of Alexia being an Alpha?
23. Did you realize the Hypocras Club was the center of the crime?
24. Did you like the book?
25. Would you read more in the series?