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.Там, в тени, у подножия вымощенной булыжником лестницы стояла фигура в плаще, и она повернулась и уставилась на них, неподвижная, как столб тьмы, но у нее не было лица, только дым...1882. К северу от Эдинбурга, на краю уединенного озера, находится учреждение из крошащегося камня, где странный доктор собирает сирот с необычными способностями. В Лондоне за двумя детьми, обладающими такими способностями, охотится фигура тьмы – человек, сотканный из дыма.Чарли Овид обнаруживает в себе дар исцелять себя благодаря жестокому воспитанию в Миссисипи, в то время как Марлоу, подкидыш с грузовой железной дороги, светится странным голубоватым светом. Когда двух седых детективов нанимают, чтобы сопроводить их на север в безопасное место, они сталкиваются со зловещей, опасной силой, которая угрожает перевернуть мир, каким они его знают. Далее следует путешествие с освещенных газом улиц Лондона к озерам Шотландии, где в Кэрндейлском институте собрались другие одаренные дети – Таланты.
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.Tam, v teni, u podnozhiya vymoshchennoy bulyzhnikom lestnitsy stoyala figura v plashche, i ona povernulas i ustavilas na nikh, nepodvizhnaya, kak stolb tmy, no u nee ne bylo litsa, tolko dym...1882. K severu ot Edinburga, na krayu uedinennogo ozera, nakhoditsya uchrezhdenie iz kroshashchegosya kamnya, gde strannyy doktor sobiraet sirot s neobychnymi sposobnostyami. V Londone za dvumya detmi, obladayushchimi takimi sposobnostyami, okhotitsya figura tmy chelovek, sotkannyy iz dyma.CHarli Ovid obnaruzhivaet v sebe dar istselyat sebya blagodarya zhestokomu vospitaniyu v Missisipi, v to vremya kak Marlou, podkidysh s gruzovoy zheleznoy dorogi, svetitsya strannym golubovatym svetom. Kogda dvukh sedykh detektivov nanimayut, chtoby soprovodit ikh na sever v bezopasnoe mesto, oni stalkivayutsya so zloveshchey, opasnoy siloy, kotoraya ugrozhaet perevernut mir, kakim oni ego znayut. Dalee sleduet puteshestvie s osveshchennykh gazom ulits Londona k ozeram SHotlandii, gde v Kerndeylskom institute sobralis drugie odarennye deti Talanty.
