Mirabelle lives in a big house with her family....family of monsters, but she is different. She has no talent like the others, unless you count not sleeping or eating a talent. All monsters come in from the Ether, it's kind of like being born. Tom and Jemima, Jem, are running away from their uncle who was raising them, but abusive. Their parents are both dead and they have to steal and run to survive. As their car runs out of gas, they discover Mirabelle's house and look to seek shelter there, but in the process stumble upon a weird, but wonderful situation. Tom is sick and needs to recover and Mirabelle and Jem become friends, but as one of the house's inhabitants, Piglet, escapes to the outside world he attracts an evil they have never seen and one that can't be killed.
I didn't care for the book at first because it had too many British English words like petrol and ration books and I didn't think kids would know what that was, but as I kept reading it was a superb story. I really loved Kenny's creations and reminded me a little of The Graveyard Book by Gaiman. Would definitely recommend to readers who won't be put off by the vocabulary.
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