Ordinary Monsters
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Sell my copyAuthor: J M Miro
Title: Ordinary Monsters
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 673
Release Date: 0000-00-00
Details: 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 lifetime of brutality, 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 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.
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. Here, 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 the force that is stalking them: that the worst monsters sometimes come bearing the sweetest gifts.
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.
EAN: 9781526650078
Package Dimensions: Height: 7.75589 inches, Length: 5.07873 inches, Width: 1.29921 inches
