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1883. Agrigento, Sicily. A city of spires and now broken hopes and bodies.<BR><BR>With the orsine destroyed, Cairndale lies in ruins, and Marlowe has vanished. His only chance of rescue lies in a fabled second orsine - long-hidden, thought lost - which might not even exist.<BR><BR>But when a body is discovered in the shadow of Cairndale, Charlie and the Talents realize there is even more at stake than they'd feared. For a new drughr has arisen, ferocious, horned, seemingly able to move in their world at will - and it is not alone. A malevolent figure, known only as the Abbess, desires the dust for her own ends. And deep in the world of the dead, a terrible evil stirs - an evil which the corrupted dust just might hold the secret to reviving, or destroying forever.<BR><BR>So the dark journey begun in Ordinary Monsters surges forward, from the sinister underworld of the London exiles, to the roar of the streetmarkets in nineteenth-century Alexandria, to the sunlit silences of the Dalmatian coast. Against bone witches, mud glyphics, and a house of twilight that exists in a netherworld all its own, the Talents must work together - if they are to have any hope of staving off the world of the dead, and saving their long-lost friend.<BR><BR>A breathtaking sequel to Ordinary Monsters, delving even deeper into the rich worldbuilding and darkly sparkling tale of The Talents.<BR><BR>Praise for Ordinary Monsters (Book One of The Talents Trilogy):<BR><BR>'Terrific. A book that creeps up on you, wearing brass knuckles' Conn Iggulden<BR><BR>'A dazzling mountain of wild invention, Dickensian eccentrics, supernatural horrors and gripping suspense. Be warned. once you step into this penny dreadful to end all penny dreadfuls, you'll never want to leave' Joe Hill<BR><BR>'Haunting, tense, earth-shattering' Tamora Pierce

England am Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts: Es ist Nacht, eine junge Dienstmagd ist auf der Flucht vor der Rache ihres Herrn. Mit allerletzter Kraft schafft sie es, sich in den Waggon eines Güterzugs zu retten - nur um dort eine Entdeckung zu machen, die ihr Leben für immer verändern wird: ein Baby, dessen Haut in einem blauen Schimmer leuchtet. Damit beginnt ein Abenteuer, das von England in den Wilden Westen bis nach Tokio und an die Grenzen des Vorstellbaren führt. Ein Abenteuer voll Magie, Wunder und tödlicher Geheimnisse ...

1883. Agrigento, Sicily. A city of spires and now broken hopes and bodies.<BR><BR>With the orsine destroyed, Cairndale lies in ruins, and Marlowe has vanished. His only chance of rescue lies in a fabled second orsine - long-hidden, thought lost - which might not even exist.<BR><BR>But when a body is discovered in the shadow of Cairndale, Charlie and the Talents realize there is even more at stake than they'd feared. For a new drughr has arisen, ferocious, horned, seemingly able to move in their world at will - and it is not alone. A malevolent figure, known only as the Abbess, desires the dust for her own ends. And deep in the world of the dead, a terrible evil stirs - an evil which the corrupted dust just might hold the secret to reviving, or destroying forever.<BR><BR>So the dark journey begun in Ordinary Monsters surges forward, from the sinister underworld of the London exiles, to the roar of the streetmarkets in nineteenth-century Alexandria, to the sunlit silences of the Dalmatian coast. Against bone witches, mud glyphics, and a house of twilight that exists in a netherworld all its own, the Talents must work together - if they are to have any hope of staving off the world of the dead, and saving their long-lost friend.<BR><BR>A breathtaking sequel to Ordinary Monsters, delving even deeper into the rich worldbuilding and darkly sparkling tale of The Talents.<BR><BR>Praise for Ordinary Monsters (Book One of The Talents Trilogy):<BR><BR>'Terrific. A book that creeps up on you, wearing brass knuckles' Conn Iggulden<BR><BR>'A dazzling mountain of wild invention, Dickensian eccentrics, supernatural horrors and gripping suspense. Be warned. once you step into this penny dreadful to end all penny dreadfuls, you'll never want to leave' Joe Hill<BR><BR>'Haunting, tense, earth-shattering' Tamora Pierce

Wir schreiben das Jahr 1883: Nach der Zerstörung des Orsine, dem Zugang zur Welt der Toten, liegt das Cairndale Institut in Trümmern und Marlow ist in der Welt der Toten gefangen. Als sich aus den rauchenden Ruinen Cairnales ein uraltes Grauen erhebt, müssen die dunklen Talente einen zweiten Orsine finden, um die Gefahr zu bannen. Doch niemand weiß, wo dieser zweite Zugang zur Welt der Toten liegt, und ob er überhaupt existiert. Für die dunklen Talente beginnt eine abenteuerliche Reise über London und Agrigent bis in die tiefsten Katakomben von Paris ...<BR><BR>Enthaltene Tropes: Dark Academia

1883. Agrigento, Sicily. A city of spires and now broken hopes and bodies.<BR><BR>With the orsine destroyed, Cairndale lies in ruins, and Marlowe has vanished. His only chance of rescue lies in a fabled second orsine - long-hidden, thought lost - which might not even exist.<BR><BR>But when a body is discovered in the shadow of Cairndale, Charlie and the Talents realize there is even more at stake than they'd feared. For a new drughr has arisen, ferocious, horned, seemingly able to move in their world at will - and it is not alone. A malevolent figure, known only as the Abbess, desires the dust for her own ends. And deep in the world of the dead, a terrible evil stirs - an evil which the corrupted dust just might hold the secret to reviving, or destroying forever.<BR><BR>So the dark journey begun in Ordinary Monsters surges forward, from the sinister underworld of the London exiles, to the roar of the streetmarkets in nineteenth-century Alexandria, to the sunlit silences of the Dalmatian coast. Against bone witches, mud glyphics, and a house of twilight that exists in a netherworld all its own, the Talents must work together - if they are to have any hope of staving off the world of the dead, and saving their long-lost friend.<BR><BR>A breathtaking sequel to Ordinary Monsters, delving even deeper into the rich worldbuilding and darkly sparkling tale of The Talents.<BR><BR>Praise for Ordinary Monsters (Book One of The Talents Trilogy):<BR><BR>'Terrific. A book that creeps up on you, wearing brass knuckles' Conn Iggulden<BR><BR>'A dazzling mountain of wild invention, Dickensian eccentrics, supernatural horrors and gripping suspense. Be warned. once you step into this penny dreadful to end all penny dreadfuls, you'll never want to leave' Joe Hill<BR><BR>'Haunting, tense, earth-shattering' Tamora Pierce

* THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER *<BR><BR>'An enthralling read' GUARDIAN<BR>'A thrilling blend of fantasy and horror, richly imagined and masterfully executed' SFX<BR>'Terrific . . . A book that creeps up on you, wearing brass knuckles' CONN IGGULDEN<BR>_______________<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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 . . .<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR>_______________<BR><BR>'A dazzling mountain of wild invention, Dickensian eccentrics, supernatural horrors and gripping suspense' JOE HILL<BR><BR>'Expansive in scope and storytelling, Ordinary Monsters builds an electrifying Victorian world' CARI THOMAS<BR><BR>J.M. Miro's book 'Ordinary Monsters' was a #5 Sunday Times bestseller w/e 04-06-2022.

In this highly anticipated second book in the Talents Trilogy, the world of the dead is closer than you think.<BR><BR>Agrigento, Sicily, 1883. With the orsine destroyed, Cairndale lies in ruins, and Marlowe has vanished. His only hope of rescue lies in a fabled second orsine-long-hidden, thought lost-which might not even exist.<BR><BR>But when a body is discovered in the shadow of Cairndale, a body wreathed in the corrupted dust of the drughr, Charlie and the Talents realize there is even more at stake than they'd feared. For a new drughr has arisen, ferocious, horned, seemingly able to move in their world at will-and it is not alone. A malevolent figure, known only as the Abbess, desires the dust for her own ends. And deep in the world of the dead, a terrible evil stirs-an evil that the corrupted dust just might hold the secret to reviving or destroying forever.<BR><BR>So the dark journey begun in Ordinary Monsters surges forward, from the sinister underworld of the London exiles, to the mysteries of a sunlit villa in nineteenth-century Sicily, to the deep catacombs hidden under Paris. Against bone witches, mud glyphics, and a house of twilight that exists in a netherworld all its own, the Talents must work together-if they are to have any hope of staving off the world of the dead, and saving their long-lost friend.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "Charles Dickens meets Joss Whedon in Miro's otherworldly Netflix-binge-like novel." -The Washington Post<BR><BR>MOST ANTICIPATED SFF BOOK of 2022 by Tor, The Nerd Daily, BookBub, Philadelphia Inquirer, Goodreads, CrimeReads, Buzzfeed, Professional Book Nerds, and more!<BR><BR>BEST BOOK OF SUMMER 2022 by SheReads, Book Riot, Goodreads, Gizmodo, Daily Beast, Paste Magazine, and more!<BR><BR>IN THIS STUNNING HISTORICAL FANTASY, journey to the Victorian era, as children with mysterious powers are hunted by a figure of darkness in a battle of good vs. evil...<BR><BR>"Ordinary Monsters is a towering achievement: a dazzling mountain of wild invention, Dickensian eccentrics, supernatural horrors, and gripping suspense. Be warned... once you step into this penny dreadful to end all penny dreadfuls, you'll never want to leave." -Joe Hill, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman and Heart-Shaped Box<BR><BR>Charlie Ovid, despite surviving 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 Alice Quicke, a jaded detective with her own troubled past, 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.<BR><BR>What follows is a story of wonder and betrayal, from the gaslit streets of London, and the wooden theaters of Meiji-era Tokyo, to an eerie estate outside Edinburgh where other children with gifts-like Komako, a witch-child and twister of dust, and Ribs, a girl who cloaks herself in invisibility-are forced to combat the forces that threaten their safety. There, the world of the dead and the world of the living threaten to collide. With this new found family, Komako, Marlowe, Charlie, Ribs, and the rest of the Talents discover the truth about their abilities. And as secrets within the Institute unfurl, a new question arises: What truly defines a monster? <BR> <BR>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.