
Bringer of Dust
The Talents, Book 2
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Ben Onwukwe
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J. M. Miro
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"Ben Onwukwe deeply engages the listening audience with this electrifying dark fantasy. The novel's impeccable attention to detail vividly comes alive through Onwukwe's tone and resonant timbre"—AudioFile on Ordinary Monsters
"A sprawling romp on audio."—Buzzfeed on Ordinary Monsters
In this highly anticipated second book in the Talents Trilogy, the world of the dead is closer than you think.
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.
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.
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.
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- Leia Schoeck
- 04-05-25
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The narrator has a great voice in general, but his character voices are absolutely appalling. He has a way of making all the characters sound completely idiotic. His American and Cockney accents are so bad I’ve literally had to stop listening several times. He gives them these dopey or screechy tones and he makes poor Oscar, who is supposed to be Russian sound like a slow, stuttering moron.
It takes so much away from the story and turns these characters whom we would otherwise come to love into aggravating fools.
Why the producers allowed this is beyond me. Otherwise the story is pretty good, though there are inconsistencies in the plot between the first and second books that they just gloss over and then the author spends entirely too much time explaining stuff that makes no sense either way you look at it.
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- Lisa costa
- 09-28-24
excellent expansion of the story
I read the first one when it originally came out and really like it so I went into this one with high expectations and this one went beyond that giving me answers I didn't know I wanted in in the ending was great in setting up the final part and what's to come
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- Laurel H.
- 12-29-24
Great story with brilliant narration
Love this series and LOVE the narrator. A truly beautifully articulated world with fascinating characters and twists and turns.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-31-25
Characters
I really enjoyed this…finished it in a couple days. I am looking forward to the next book!
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- Anonymous User
- 10-15-24
The sequel to Ordinary Monsters was excellent.
Loved this new book. Highly recommended. Darker & more twisted than the first. I love the character development and the addition of the new characters. Can’t wait until the next book comes out. I fear we will be waiting for awhile.
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- tara daniels
- 01-04-25
Imaginative Plot
Both the narration and plot were top notch. One of the books I question how on earth did the author think of this, as I’m reading. More complex than book one. Also a little more dark and gruesome than book one. Like, too much for me personally. This book edged into horror, enough to keep me from reading any sequel.
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- Patrick S.
- 09-22-24
great follow up to ordinary monsters
I can't wait to see what comes next in this storyline.. great performance from the voice actor
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- Namibian woodcraft
- 09-29-24
I love this series
I love the reader’s characterizations. I love the story. I love the descriptions. Now, when is the third book coming????
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