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Ordinary Monsters

The Talents, Book 1

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Ordinary Monsters

Von: J M Miro
Gesprochen von: Ben Onwukwe
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 Bloomsbury presents Ordinary Monsters by J M Miro, read by Ben Onwukwe.

* THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER *

'An enthralling read' GUARDIAN
'A thrilling blend of fantasy and horror, richly imagined and masterfully executed' SFX
'Terrific . . . A book that creeps up on you, wearing brass knuckles' CONN IGGULDEN
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The first in a captivating new historical fantasy series, ORDINARY MONSTERS introduces the Talents with a catastrophic vision of the Victorian world, and the gifted, broken children who must save it.

There in the shadows was a figure in a cloak, at the bottom of the cobblestone stair, and it turned and stared up at them as still and unmoving as a pillar of darkness, but it had no face, only smoke . . .

1882. North of Edinburgh, on the edge of an isolated loch, lies an institution of crumbling stone, where a strange doctor collects orphans with unusual abilities. In London, two children with such powers are hunted by a figure of darkness – a man made of smoke.

Charlie Ovid discovers a gift for healing himself through a brutal upbringing in Mississippi, while Marlowe, a foundling from a railway freight, glows with a strange bluish light. When two grizzled detectives are recruited to escort them north to safety, they are confronted by a sinister, dangerous force that threatens to upend the world as they know it.

What follows is a journey from the gaslit streets of London to the lochs of Scotland, where other gifted children – the Talents – have been gathered at Cairndale Institute, and the realms of the dead and the living collide. 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.
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'A dazzling mountain of wild invention, Dickensian eccentrics, supernatural horrors and gripping suspense' JOE HILL

'Expansive in scope and storytelling, Ordinary Monsters builds an electrifying Victorian world' CARI THOMAS

J.M. Miro's book 'Ordinary Monsters' was a #5 Sunday Times bestseller w/e 04-06-2022.©2022 Ides of March Creative Inc. (P)2022 Macmillan Audio Fantasy Historisch Paranormal & Urban Fantasy Urban Fantasy

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"Ordinary Monsters" is quite well written, but I don't think it contains even a single original idea. It's a mix of well-established elements (and quite a few tropes) taken from other fantasy novels. Characters, storylines and plot devices that every fantasy reader has come across umpteen times. It's quite a long book, and I was thoroughly bored throughout most of it. It didn't help that the boringly familiar plot was regularly interrupted by equally uninteresting subplots, random jumps between different timelines and overly detailed backstories of various characters.

I'm in two minds about the narrator's performance. His regular voice is lovely (dark and smooth) and his accent very pleasant, but I found the voices he created for the women and children extremely annoying. They all sound whiny and wimpy, Oscar sounds like an imbecile and 8-year-old Marlowe like a toddler. And Charlie's (and - to a lesser degree - Alice's) American accent made me cringe.

Underwhelming

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