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    A Taste for Monsters
    A Taste for Monsters
    A Taste for Monsters
    Audiobook10 hours

    A Taste for Monsters

    Written by Matthew J. Kirby

    Narrated by Anna Mountford

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    About this audiobook

    The mesmerizing story of a young woman in Victorian London who, haunted by the ghosts of Jack the Ripper's victims, is set on a terrifying path to salvation.

    The real monsters are men.

    London 1888, and Jack the Ripper is terrorizing the people of the city. Evelyn, a young woman disfigured by her dangerous work in a matchstick factory, with nowhere to go, does not know what to make of her new position as a maid to the Elephant Man in London Hospital. Evelyn wanted to be locked away from the world like he is, shut away from the filth and dangers of the streets. But in Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, she finds a gentle kindred who does not recoil from her and who understands her pain.

    When the murders begin, however, Joseph and Evelyn are haunted nightly by the ghosts of the Ripper's dead, setting Evelyn on a path to facing her fears and uncovering humanity's worst nightmares.

    A terrifying and haunting tale from the Edgar Award-winning author of Icefall and the Assassin's Creed novels, Matthew J. Kirby.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScholastic
    Release dateSep 27, 2016
    ISBN9781338052336
    A Taste for Monsters
    Author

    Matthew J. Kirby

    Matthew J. Kirby is the author of the acclaimed middle grade novels The Clockwork Three, Icefall, and The Lost Kingdom, as well as one book in the New York Times bestselling series Infinity Ring. He was born in Utah, but with a father in the military he has lived in many places, including Rhode Island, Maryland, California (twice), and Hawaii. As an undergraduate at Utah State University, he majored in history. He then went on to earn MS and EdS degrees in school psychology. Matthew currently lives in Utah.

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    • 4/5
      I actually liked this story.

      Themes: Ghosts w/unfinished business, murders, hospital setting, body deformities

      The protagonist has a facial disfiguration, she applies to work at a hospital and take care of a character that's nicknamed "The Elephant Man." She genuinely befriends him and together they try to solve murders that are happening around London.
    • 4/5
      I thought it was a very good and solid story. It kept my interest and I enjoyed the ending. Overall a great story.