I should have just gone and spoiled myself so the setup made more sense. I focused on the Timeless portion of that sentence but I should have paid closer heed to the Imprudence part as I have read a sum total of zero of the Custard Protocol books which follow the Soulless books in chronological order. In the Note on Chronology Carriger tells us readers that her Supernatural Society novellas can be read in any order, and that this book takes place chronologically after the events of Imprudence (in 1895), and ties romantically to events in Timeless. While this is a perfectly serviceable romance novella and an interesting piece of Carriger’s Steampunk Universe I made a mistake. Of course, it ended up in the beginning of CBR10 instead because that’s just how I roll. When last year I saw that her second novella in this universe was going to focus on the love story of two of my favorite supporting characters from the Parasol Protectorate books, Professor Lyall and Biffy, I pre-ordered it to read at the end of CBR9. I am a big Carriger fan I enjoy her online presence, and find the tempo of her writing fun and soothing.

Carriger showed back up in my reading in CBR6 as I started her Finishing School books (a prequel series) which spread out over Cannonballs 7 & 8. Heck it and the next three books in the Parasol Protectorate series make four of my first 10 reviews. The third book I ever reviewed for Cannonball was Carriger’s Soulless book. In some ways my CBR history is the history of my reading Gail Carriger books.

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