Ether & Elephants

By: Cindy Spencer Pape

Narrated by: Faye Adele

A Gaslight Chronicles Novel

Sir Thomas Devere and Eleanor Hadrian have loved each other most of their lives—but sometimes love doesn't conquer all.

Their chance at happiness was ruined by Tom's hasty marriage to someone else. Heartbroken, Nell left home, finding a new life as a teacher at a school for the blind. But when one of her supernaturally gifted students, Charlie, is kidnapped, Tom reappears and her worlds collide.

Tom claims he hasn't seen his wife since the day of their marriage…yet he fears the missing student could be his son.

The deeper they dig, the more Tom and Nell discover: a deadly alchemist, more missing gifted children and long-suppressed feelings neither of them is ready for. A race on airship across England and India may lead them to answers—including a second chance at love—but only if all of British Society isn't destroyed first.

Finally their stories! (narrator disappointing)

If this is the end of the series, it was a really good one. I love that Nell and Tom finally got their own stories. I’d love to hear Piers’ as well, but if this IS the end, I am satisfied.

Unfortunately, though the narrator did the Bengali accents acceptably well, the rest of her narration was too bright, too feminine, not clear enough to distinguish different characters in many sections, and darn near Glinda the Good Witch reincarnate (the voice, the inflections, the whole deal!) in many sections. Why not finish (if this is indeed the end) with the same narrator as all the previous books? Jolting, and very disappointing.