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Ordinary Monsters cover

That sure was a book

Ordinary Monsters by Miro, JM

August 22, 2025 by vega-table 2 Comments

Bingo Row 1 – Black Ordinary Monsters by JM Miro feels nostalgic. I suspect a lot of that is because the book looks so much like my long gone copy of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. It’s a big black book with the silhouette of a flying bird on the cover. I only noticed it in a bookstore because I thought it was Jonathan Strange. There are a few other similarities I noticed between the two, but it’s been so long since I read the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Miro, JM

vega-table's CBR17 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, Miro, JM ·
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