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The Night Life of the Gods

Thorne Smith (1931)

SubgenreCozy Fantasy
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
Pages (Standard (250-400))
Setting
CSM age16
Goodreads3.78

Content levels

ViolenceMild
Sexual contentMild
LanguageMild

Trigger warnings

Substance Abuse

Hero archetypes

ScientistTrickster

Heroine archetypes

Fae Heroine

Protagonist archetypes

Duo / Partners

Synopsis

Hunter Hawk has a knack for annoying his ultrarespectable relatives. He likes to experiment and he particularly likes to experiment with explosives. His garage-cum-laboratory is a veritable minefield, replete with evil-smelling clouds of vapor through which various bits of wreckage and mysteriously bubbling test tubes are occasionally visible. With the help of Megaera, a fetching nine-hundred-year-old lady leprechaun he meets one night in the woods, he masters the art (if not the timing) of transforming statues into people. And when he practices his new witchery in the stately halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Artsetting Bacchus, Mercury, Neptune, Diana, Hebe, Apollo, and Perseus loose on the unsuspecting citizenry of Prohibition-era New York-the stage is set for Thorne Smith at his most devilish and delightful.

Tags

Historical FantasyHumorous FantasyMythological FantasySatirical Fantasy