A funeral is interrupted by an impossible crime…
A visiting delegation reports their leader has vanished…
A letter arrives from Ada’s mother, which reads ‘If you’re reading this, I must have died’. Except she’s very much alive…
Ada Vargas never expected to be one of the most powerful women in the nation while most of her friends were still attending school. Bequeathed with the knowledge and power of Animation, she alone possesses the ability to bring raw matter to life, giving awareness and sentience to creations of wood and brass and stone. She was a quick learner, though, and she’d inherited enough of the knack from her mother to meet most of the nation’s needs. It was hard, exhausting work, but she found she enjoyed it.
Except the Mayor is trying to take the authority of Animator for himself. Except Animations are being smashed in the streets. Except envoys from distant nations are appearing after decades of silence. Except her best friend seems to be hiding dangerous secrets from her. Except, all of a sudden, she finds herself the villain in her own story.
Ada never wanted to be the hero.
But nobody else is going to do it for her.
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The Golden Age Of Animation is a YA apocalyptic fantasy novel by the father and daughter writing team of Topper and Poppy Sundquist. With any luck, it won’t be their last.
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