"The Mesmerist" (Без сокращений) - книга, рассказывающая о тринадцатилетней Джессамин Грейс и ее матери, которые зарабатывают на жизнь, выдающ себя за шарлатанских медиумов. Однако, вскоре им открывается удивительное: Джесс обладает способностью гипнотизировать и по-настоящему общаться с мертвыми. Вскоре она погружается во мрак таинственного подполья сверхъестественного Лондона эпохи викторианской эпохи и узнает, что город подвергается нападению упырей, монстров и вызывателей духов. Сможет ли Джесс противостоять этим могущественным силам? И смогут ли группа странных детей с загадочными способностями, с которыми она подружится, помочь ей? В процессе превращения из застенчивой и правильной девочки в отважную воительницу, она раскрывает ужасающие истины о скрытом противостоянии добра и зла, о своей семье и о самой себе.
Thirteen-year - old Jessamine Grace together with her mother, Molly, are working as sham psychologists, so they keep their psychic powers hidden from everyone, including themselves. But then Jess discovers she's a real-life, full - scale mesmerist. This can now let her truly speak with the deceased, the ability she so badly wants, to ease the pain and lose in the lives of Molly's five sisters, who have all died a most different deaths. In her quest for explanations and more importantly answers, Jess promptly disappears and finds herself travelling back over a century in time: into heartbreaking Victoriana — a popular time period that remains and celebrated quite often among magicians, illusionists, psychics and beyond. Here, our soon-to-be "mesmerist" makes a terrifying discovery: the fact that London itself is being pierced by the forces of the underworld — ghoulish monks, appalling monsters and mysterious summoner spirits.Thanks to her new found ability to communicate with those who've crossed on into this spirit world, Jess begins herenchanting debut battles with the terrifying forces terrorising the fog-shrouded streets of London. But there's a bigger problem than slaying ghosts, goblins and witches — no matter how impressive her power-set may be, Jess needs the help of a crew of extremely strange but brilliant children with deep and unusual hidden gifts of their own — including a touchy-feely freak, a theatrically genius kid still grieving for the loss of her soul mates, a "crystal" kid whose placement in the setting reads more like sci-fi than it does supernatural, and a fourteen-year old ghost. Would they be able to stand up to these darker forces, or would they be easily consumed by them? This enigmatic story will take the readers out of usual spellswords and make its way up your neurons, effectively teaching you about another world with epic struggles involving reality, sacrifices, anger, revenge, love, friendship and an often more human dilemma.
Аудиокнига «The Mesmerist (Unabridged)» написана автором Ronald L. Smith в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9781520065878
Описание книги от Ronald L. Smith
Thirteen-year-old Jessamine Grace and her mother make a living as sham spiritualists-until they discover that Jess is a mesmerist and that she really can talk to the dead. Soon she is plunged into the dark world of Victorian London's supernatural underbelly and learns that the city is under attack by ghouls, monsters, and spirit summoners. Can Jess fight these powerful forces? And will the group of strange children with mysterious powers she befriends be able to help? As shy, proper Jess transforms into a brave warrior, she uncovers terrifying truths about the hidden battle between good and evil, about her family, and about herself.
