New Book Release: Ordinary Monsters by J.M. Miro (The Talents Trilogy #1)
Blurb:
England, 1882. In Victorian London, two children with mysterious powers are hunted by a figure of darkness—a man made of smoke.
Sixteen-year-old Charlie Ovid, despite a brutal childhood in Mississippi, doesn’t have a scar on him. His body heals itself, whether he wants it to or not. Marlowe, a foundling from a railway freight car, shines with a strange bluish light. He can melt or mend flesh. When a jaded female detective is recruited to escort them to safety, all three begin a journey into the nature of difference, and belonging, and the shadowy edges of the monstrous.
What follows is a story of wonder and betrayal, from the gaslit streets of London, and the wooden theatres of Meiji-era Tokyo, to an eerie estate outside Edinburgh where other children with gifts – the Talents – have been gathered. There, the world of the dead and the world of the living threaten to collide. And as secrets within the Institute unfurl, Marlowe, Charlie and the rest of the Talents will discover the truth about their abilities, and the nature of what is stalking them: that the worst monsters sometimes come bearing the sweetest gifts.
Riveting in its scope, exquisitely written, Ordinary Monsters presents a catastrophic vision of the Victorian world—and of the gifted, broken children who must save it.
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What an intriguing blurb! This book sounds wonderful.
Couldn’t agree more! I’ve exhausted my library title picks, but luckily someone else did it first.
Will you be reading and reviewing?
I’ll definitely be trying for sure since it’s already available. I’m about to pick up a new release I posted about at the end of May at my new library (just finished moving today). The one by Shvartsman that has a superhero vibe.
Congrats on finishing your move! That’s a feat. A book will be a nice way to relax and settle in. 🙂
Thanks! Yeah I’ve been so exhausted the past two days, but today was much better. I stopped by my new library and love it! It’s such a scenic drive and remote like I wanted.