![]() ![]() Even having read it a year ago, it is still resonating with me. I could list all the things that I struggled with in this book when I first read it over a year ago. That being said, I CANNOT STOP THINKING ABOUT ORDINARY MONSTERS. It’s epically long at 672 pages, with a sprawling cast of characters, an unwieldy system of magic, a school for gifted youth that feels very familiar, and some muddled character motivation. QUICK-ISH TAKE: Stick with me here. Ordinary Monsters is a f*cking mess. With lush prose, mesmerizing world-building, and a gripping plot, Ordinary Monsters presents a catastophic vision of the Victorian world-and of the gifted, broken children who must save it.more 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 the force that is stalking them: that the worst monsters sometimes come bearing the sweetest gifts. Here, the world of the dead and the world of the living threaten to collide. What follows is a journey from the gaslit streets of London, to an eerie estate outside Edinburgh, where other children with gifts-the Talents-have been gathered. When two grizzled detectives are recruited to escort them north to safety, they are forced to confront the nature of difference, and belonging, and the shadowy edges of the monstrous. Marlowe, a foundling from a railway freight car, shines with a strange bluish light. His body heals itself, whether he wants it to or not. Sixteen-year-old Charlie Ovid, despite a lifetime of brutality, doesn't have a scar on him. In Victorian London, two children with mysterious powers are hunted by a figure of darkness -a man made of smoke. Miro's Ordinary Monsters introduces readers to the dark, labyrinthe world of The TalentsĮngland, 1882. His body heals its A stunning new work of historical fantasy, J. ![]() Miro's Ordinary Monsters introduces readers to the dark, labyrinthe world of The Talents England, 1882. A stunning new work of historical fantasy, J.
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