Gargoyles and Absinthe - Eric Avedissian
Category: Novel
Narrator: Clara Abbott
Tags: Novel, Action, Teen & Young Adult, Fantasy
Paris, 1887:, Fifty-five years after the Second Republic arose from rebellion, France is a technological juggernaut and envy of the civilized world. Airships ply the skies, steam wagons crowd the streets, and automaton soldiers guard palaces and factories. Darkness and soot choke a city where innocent blood flows freer than wine at stately banquets., Nanette Lamaine lives underground in Pariss catacombs with her overprotective but brilliant magician father Hercule and their pet gargoyle Gaston. By day she tinkers on inventions in her laboratory while nights are spent keeping Gaston out of trouble., When magic is outlawed and government agents murder her father, Nanette seeks out Pariss greatest sorceress - the mysterious Madame Astrid - who schools her in the thaumaturgical fighting arts, an elegant combination of physical agility and elemental magic., Nanette and Gaston reluctantly join the Flywheel Fellowship, a ragtag band of misfits determined to topple the sadistic Admiral Aguillo
