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Ordinary Monsters: The Talents, cartea 1

Autor J M Miro
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 iun 2022

Ne-a atras atenția încă de la primele pagini structura narativă ambițioasă a acestui roman, care se desfășoară pe mai multe continente și perspective, împletind rigoarea documentării istorice cu o fantezie întunecată de tip „penny dreadful”. Găsim în Ordinary Monsters o construcție de lume remarcabilă, unde epoca victoriană nu este doar un decor, ci un organism viu, de la străzile luminate cu gaz ale Londrei până la teatrele de lemn din Tokyo-ul erei Meiji. Reținem în mod special modul în care J M Miro redefinește sistemul magic prin conceptul de „Talente”: abilități care sunt deopotrivă daruri și blesteme fizice, precum lumina albastră care poate topi sau vindeca trupurile. Stilul are ceva din proza densă și atmosferică a lui V E Schwab în Our Dark Duet, fără să fie o imitație — acolo unde Schwab se concentrează pe dualitatea morală urbană, Miro extinde miza către un horror supranatural cu rădăcini în metafizică, explorând coliziunea dintre lumea celor vii și cea a morților. Această primă parte a trilogiei The Talents Trilogy stabilește un ton mult mai sumbru și mai expansiv decât lucrările tipice din categoria tinerilor adulți, ancorându-se în tradiția literaturii gotice. Este o operă care pregătește terenul pentru continuarea Bringer of Dust, transformând vulnerabilitatea unor copii hărțuiți într-o forță capabilă să înfrunte o figură a întunericului absolut. Autorul reușește să mențină un ritm alert în ciuda dimensiunilor considerabile ale volumului, alternând momentele de suspans cu reflecții profunde despre ce înseamnă, de fapt, să fii un monstru.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781250833662
ISBN-10: 1250833663
Pagini: 672
Dimensiuni: 168 x 239 x 52 mm
Greutate: 0.89 kg
Editura: Flatiron Books
Seria The Talents


De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută o fantezie istorică matură, cu un sistem de magie visceral și o atmosferă gotică apăsătoare. Dacă v-au captivat poveștile despre școli pentru copii dotați, dar vă doriți o abordare mai întunecată, de tipul „Dickens întâlnește horror-ul modern”, acest roman vă va oferi o experiență imersivă despre apartenență și supraviețuire într-o lume care se teme de tot ce este diferit.


Despre autor

J M Miro este pseudonimul unui scriitor consacrat care trăiește și lucrează în regiunea Pacific Northwest. Cu Ordinary Monsters, autorul face o trecere spectaculoasă către genul fantasy, demonstrând o abilitate rară de a combina cercetarea istorică meticuloasă cu elemente de horror și suspans. Deși identitatea sa reală rămâne protejată, experiența sa narativă este evidentă în complexitatea structurii acestui prim volum din The Talents Trilogy, care a devenit rapid un bestseller Sunday Times și a fost aclamat de publicații prestigioase precum The Washington Post.


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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "Charles Dickens meets Joss Whedon in Miro's otherworldly Netflix-binge-like novel." -The Washington Post

MOST ANTICIPATED SFF BOOK of 2022 by Tor, The Nerd Daily, BookBub, Philadelphia Inquirer, Goodreads, CrimeReads, Buzzfeed, Professional Book Nerds, and more!

BEST BOOK OF SUMMER 2022 by SheReads, Book Riot, Goodreads, Gizmodo, Daily Beast, Paste Magazine, and more!

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...

"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

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.

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?

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.

LOOK FOR THE NEXT BOOK IN THE TALENTS TRILOGY, BRINGER OF DUST, IN 2023.

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* 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.

Recenzii

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
Expansive in scope and storytelling, Ordinary Monsters builds an electrifying Victorian world: grimy but luminous, magical but deadly, with a cast of diverse and gripping characters that feel entirely modern
Haunting, tense, earth-shattering . A riveting mix of magic and terror
Murky as London smog, dark as black pudding, this is a gaslit gothic tour de force . . . The fantasy is so rich and the atmosphere so immersive in this stand-out debut, that it's easy to overlook the crispiness of the writing and the brilliantly propulsive plotting. And while drughrs, litches, keywrasses and orsines make for a wonderful new language of dread, it's the characters that carry the day
An engrossing piece of Gothic, Dickensian fantasy, centred around children gifted with magical powers . . . Miro's meaty, detailed execution lends his story weight and depth and commands respect
A thrilling blend of fantasy and horror, richly imagined and masterfully executed
A fantasy series so ambitious that it makes The Lord of the Rings look like a stroll in the Shire . . . Spanning the globe and crammed with good versus evil battles and hair's breadth escapes, this book is great fun despite frim subject matter, thanks to J. M. Miro's darkly witty style . . . Remarkably fresh