Ordinary Monsters

This book was possibly too ambitious. It tries to check off a lot of boxes, with historical urban fantasy setting, magical wizarding type school, world trotting adventures and more. As a result it is one tome of a book, but I think its ambition is ultimately its biggest problem. It is very obvious that J.M. Miro has a wild imagination that drives this work. The problem is that wild imagination ends up jumping around so much that it is very hard to get a grip of the overarching narrative that is trying to be presented. Some plot lines end up disappearing down odd dead ends without proper resolution, and the main plot gets lost in some of the sub plots from time to time. It is certainly an interesting and entertaining read, although some of its meandering tendencies slow it down in unfortunate ways. Ultimately it is book of great ambition, that shows a lot of potential. I would be intrigued to see where a more restrained and focused work from this author would take me.