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  • Ambush or Adore

  • A Delightfully Deadly Novel
  • Written by: Gail Carriger
  • Narrated by: Emma Newman
  • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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Ambush or Adore

Written by: Gail Carriger
Narrated by: Emma Newman
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Publisher's Summary

London’s best and most covert spy tries to escape the man who has always adored her.

New York Times best-selling author Gail Carriger brings you a charming story of enduring love set in her popular Parasolverse, narrated by Emma Newman.

Intelligencer

Agatha Woosmoss, the Wallflower, is the greatest intelligencer of her generation. And no one knows she exists. She has been invisible, capable, and cunning for well over four decades. Her greatest skill is in her ability to go forever unnoticed. Except by one man. 

Versus Intellectual

Pillover Plumleigh-Teignmott is a professor of ancient languages at Oxford University. He’s tried to ignore his training as an evil genius and live a quiet life away from politics and intrigue. 

When an assignment goes horribly wrong, Agatha must hide and heal. So she goes to ground with the only person who’s always kept her safe: Pillover. 

Can Pillover hold on to the deadly woman who specializes in getting away? Will Agatha realize that patience is indeed a virtue, and that perhaps it is good to be noticed by the one who waits? 

Spinning off from Miss Gail’s Finishing School series, this story stands on its own and spans decades, but was written after Defy or Defend. May contain vampires, old injuries, lost love, and the reappearance of many favorite characters. If you like gruff but caring men with secret sorrows and the tough smart women they love, you’ll also enjoy How to Marry a Werewolf, also narrated by Emma.

©2021 Gail Carriger LLC (P)2021 Gail Carriger LLC

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I'm so happy

Very different pacing but it was absolutely right for this story. I'm so happy with the ending but I had to cry a little too.

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No plot, all nostalgia

It was a nice but bland way to wrap up the many series. The callbacks, cameos and behind-the-scenes from the other novels were fun but did not add anything at all new to the universe.

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Least favourite Carriger work

This is the least exciting and adventurous of all of Carrigers books that I’ve read, and I’ve read all of this series, Parasol Protectorate, Finishing School, and accompanying romance novellas. The pace is relatively slow and mundane. Likely suits the characters as they’ve been described in previous works, but I don’t feel that the universe has been enriched by this piece at all. If you don’t read this one, you are not missing anything.

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