A Review of the Book "Bringer of Dust" by J.M. Miro

Title: Bringer of Dust

Author: J.M Miro

Publisher: Penguin Random House Canada Limited

Year: 2024

598 pages

From the Back:

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 which 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.

Personal Thoughts: Bringer of Dust was a fun book to read. I almost always like it when authors have multiple storylines going because I find the back and forth keeps me moving along in the book. Sometimes it doesn't work and gets confusing or annoying but that wasn't the case here. At some points I was trying to figure out how it was all going to fit together, but Miro came through with an ending that was both enjoyable and satisfying.

    You can see on the cover that this is the second book of a trilogy, however the third book isn't yet published. I'm not too worried about is though. Where I felt that Ordinary Monsters ended on a bit of a cliffhanger, Bringer of Dust did not. So while I would definitely like to read the third book once it's published, this isn't one of those times where I wished I had waited until all the books existed before reading the series.