"Miss Alexia Tarabotti was not enjoying her eveing. Private balls were never more than middling amusements for spinsters, and Miss Tarabotti was not the kind of spinster who could garner even that much pleasure from the event. To put the pudding in the puff: she had retreated to the library, her favorite sanctuary in any house, only to happen upon an unexpected vampire." When the said vampire tried to attack her, she says, "I say! We have not properly been introduced." Her prim and proper manners are too funny to read! Miss Tarabotti is most upset by the vampire falling over the tea tray and ruining the treacle tart.
It seems that Miss Tarabotti has no soul, which negates any supernatural abilities in others: vampires teeth retract, werewolves cannot turn all hairy, and ghosts can be exorcised. She seems to be very outspoken for a woman of these times, yet is always the picture of perfect etiquette! This is absolutely a fun book to read!!
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