Ghosts of the Catacombs
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3.7 • 14 Ratings
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- $3.99
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Publisher Description
I'm a ghost whisperer, not a catacomb crawler. But when you live in Paris, sometimes you end up being both.
Hi, I'm Alix. During the day, I'm a history student at the time-honoured Sorbonne University. After class, I hang out with the ghosts of the revolution, the many undead misunderstood Parisian artists, and adventurous scientists that glow in the dark. None of them are alive, but they come to me to solve their problems with the living.
When a recently deceased catacomb tour guide asks me to retrieve a mysterious personal item from the underground, things take a turn for the weird. Suddenly, I find myself in a city of ghosts, hunted by murderous cave crawlers, and stumbling across haunting secrets.
If I'm not careful now, I might end up a ghost myself.
Urban Fantasy with a French twist. If you like cave-crawling adventures, hopeless romantics, and ghosts, you'll enjoy Ghosts of the Catacomb, the first instalment of the Parisian Ghosts series. Travel to Paris today to embark on your catacomb adventure.
Customer Reviews
Ghosts, Catacombs, and Paris!!
Alix has a lot going on in her life, from working at the Pantheon, going to school for her Masters, and oh yeah, she sees ghosts everywhere. She spends her time working, going to school, and hanging out with some of the most famous dead French people. Her mother and her sister do not tolerate her shenanigans with ghosts and her sister feels compelled to let her opinion be known about this. Alix deals with a lot and always tries to help ghosts, even to her detriment.
The story starts off easily enough with a ghost asking for a favor, Victor Hugo (yes, that Victor Hugo who really liked writing loooooong sentences) raises his issues, but Alix still wants to help out anyway. Plus, how else is she going to learn more about history than wandering around the catacombs? The book picked up more towards the end after starting a little slow and I liked the twists and turns with the catacombs and its inhabitants.
Malou was wonderful! She was such a fun hedgehog and her antics were adorable! Plus she knows to follow her nose.
There's some romance in the story (just kissing), swearing, murder, crawling around the catacombs, and LOTS of ghosts. The story does end on a bit of a cliffhanger (not quite a true one in my opinion, but definitely on a note that REALLY makes me impatient for the next one!).
Alix is first introduced in the prequel book, but it's not needed to be enjoyed prior to reading this one. I do recommend it because it is a fun story and it was neat learning about Josephine Baker.