#Genevieve Lefoux

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Character, book, and author names under the cut

Nicky Hemick- All for the Game by Nora Sakavic

Genevieve Lefoux- The Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger

Jack Wolcott- Wayward Children Series by Seanan McGuire

Benji Ovich- Beartown by Frederik Backman

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Parasolverse by Gail Carriger

As a general concept, I cannot express how much I adore every series in this universe. Each series has a cast of interesting and dislikeable characters, and there's a nice sprinkling of LGBT characters. That said - there are some problems. Some of which are centered around the author's world building continuity, and some of which are centered around narrative issues in the audiobooks.

Since the narrative issues are mostly personal preference and not critical to the consumption of the books, let's discuss that first and then move on to the meat and potatoes of the situation. I absolutely understand that it's not feasible or even sometimes desirable for extended universe's like this to have one consistent narrator. I do not understand how people get paid to narrate a series in the midst of an extended universe and don't even bother to listen to name pronunciations in the other books, or to learn anything about the characters. It's annoying enough that we apparently can't agree on a single pronunciation for Lord Akeldama (sp), but in the Custard Protocol series the narrator literally CHANGES THE NATIONALITY of a character by giving an Italian accent to a dandy who has never in his life left London and is **not** Italian. It takes a character readers have spent 5+ books with and completely changes the entire perception of him in a way that is not a good representation of the books.

Now, the continuity issues within the books themselves are significant enough that it seems ironic to complain about narrator continuity issues. From this point on, there will be spoilers.

I'm only going to be discussing the full length novels, not any of the novellas.

The Finishing School [FS] series which introduces us to the series is a solid, entertaining read that I have basically no complaints about.

The Parasol Protectorate series follows the 20's portions of the life of, we can safely assume, the child Sophronia was hired to to guard at the end of the previous series. All good there. Lord Akeldama is a delight. Alexia is a likeable yet flawed main character.

My only real continuity mention in this series is that Sidheag and Vieve seem to not know each other? But potentially they're shamming because its the sort of thing they learned in FS.

The Custard Protocol is particularly fun because we are seeing the aetheric science of the future that was discussed in FS, and we see many returning characters from FS. That said... We have some issues here, y'all.

1. The Alpha's Curse: the author sped things up to make a more tidy and exciting timeline. It was unnecessary. Lord Maccon could have retired to Egypt in dignity, and would have, had the progression of the curse gone according to previously established parameters.

2. The LeFoux preservation tank: in the PP series kept Madame Lefoux from FS in ghost form for *years*, and yet Formerly Floot is a ghost for months at most. At the end of the series, Q says the preservation tank was inspired by Rue disliking baths but this is inaccurate, as the original and apparently significantly better designed tank was invented many years before Rue's birth.

These problems can ultimately be summed up in the same way: if you're going to make the "science" and call it such, you cant change it willy nilly just to make your timeline more dramatic.

3. Timelines - Ivy Tunstall was not a girl at the same time as Genevieve L, they should be approximately ~10 years apart in age.

[cricketnationrise]

fic for the @sapphicfest summer fest

prompt: Week 1 - And Then She Kissed Me by St. Vincent

[carrigerpigeon]

Imogene Hale, sitting bolt upright in bed several months/years later: She wasn’t talking about food!

[cicatrixtwigs]

So it struck me while reading Reticence that i feel the same way about the Finishing School ladies as i do about The Maurauders in Harry Potter. Only we’ve actually have a bunch of books about the Finishing School ladies. And they are a lot less... well... deceased.

I really love the choices Gail has made in setting her various works across different generations and timezones. We get to see the mortal characters at various life stages, and the immortals continuing their long games throughout the series.

Now... give me that book about the trio in Egypt please Miss Carriger. *grabby hands*

[pdalicedraws]

More Parasol Protectorate doodles because Genevieve is still best girl

also Gail Carriger reblogged my other draw??? Is that a common experience in this fandom I’m shaking HI MS CARRIGER I LOVE YOUR WORK

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Alexia, Ivy and Genevieve from the Parasol Protectorate series, reblog if you like them!

Check out my parasolverse tag for more fan art!

[karolinasdeans]

wlw book aesthetics ↬ romancing the inventor by gail carriger

[ace-artemis-fanartist]

Starting Pride Month off with Madame Lefoux from Parasol Protectorate and her standalone Romancing the Inventor.

I’m keeping up with my tradition of only drawing canon LGBTQA+ characters this month. There are so many awesome characters, and I’m excited to draw them!

[kindofacid]

if the girl i have a possible crush on doesn’t describe me as mysterious and cryptic then what’s the point

[randombookreadersworld]

Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School #1)

author: Gail Carriger # pages: 309 # chapters: 17 start date: March 4 finish date: March 7 rating: 4/5 review: so, the concept sounded interesting so I thought I would give it a try and wow just wow! it has steampunk, vampires, werewolves, and a finishing school that trains intelligencers

[possiblyelven]

Updated my Mme Lefoux cosplay from @gailcarriger‘s books, in honor of the new novella. Also in honor of my butch partner whom I love very much, @miggrator. 

One thing that will never change about this outfit? Monsieur Peugeot. He’s a good lad.

[bronzeflower]

Call Me Gasper

Also on ao3

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“Sophronia! It’s so good to see you again!” I said.

“It is nice to see you again too, Vieve.” Sophronia greeted, and I felt dread at hearing my dead name. “It’s been a while, hasn’t it?”

“Yes, it has.” I agreed. “Sophronia, I would like to talk to you about something.”

“What is it?”

I could see the gears turning in her brain already.

“It’s not espionage related. I assure you.”

“Oh. then what is it?”

“Could you…” I gulped. “Could you call me Gaspar?”

“Wasn’t that the fake name you used at Bunson’s?”

“I… yes, but I prefer it. It feels right, if that makes sense.”

“...” Sophronia stayed quiet for a moment. “Do you want me to refer to you as a man?”

“Yes, please.”

“Alright, Gaspar.”

[carrigerpigeon]

Your moment if queer womxn drool: Madame Lefoux in a white three piece suit. 👌

[bengesko]

@gailcarriger Madame LeFoux!

Merle Oberon as George Sand in: A Song to Remember, 1945

[pdalicedraws]

So... I picked up the first Parasol Protectorate book at the library, read it in a day, and got hooked. I got through the second one on the bus to and from class, and I have the third on hold— I know I’m very late to this party, but they’re just such OTT engaging fun!! I got way too invested way too fast in Mme Lefoux...

(This is the very end of Changeless but I’m not going to say anything more about it for fear of spoilerimg my gf who I’m trying to convince to read these 😉)