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One of the many reasons I am so taken with Souless: "Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted things, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table."

It happens to also have a well designed alternative Victorian London, a complex way of dealing with period prejudices, and a strong minded intelligent female lead who chaffs against societal expectations of womanhood much the way my own Great Grand mother and Great great grandmother did, though they expressed it in different ways from the heroine of this piece and each other. The narrative voice it absolutely charming, though the writing in the second half is not quite as tight as in the first half generally. It's a very strong first novel.