THE MIME ORDER picks up right where The Bone Season
ended, as Paige Mahoney is back with the Seven Seals in
London after escaping the horrors of imprisonment at
Sheol I. Paige has seen the brutality of slavery and
what is being done to others clairvoyants under the
government of Scion and its deadly alliance with the
alien beings known as the Rephaim. She wants to tell the
world, but no one around her is willing to listen.
Meanwhile, Scion is desperately searching for Paige and
she has to remain hidden for fear someone will try to
collect the bounty on her head. Will Paige trust the
right people as she attempts to forge a path for freedom?
THE MIME ORDER is the second book in The Bone
Season series and I would highly suggest reading the
books in order as Samantha Shannon's world is quite vast.
Within Samantha Shannon's complex world, clairvoyant
powers have manifested in portions of the population and
their powers have been met with fear by Scion (the
government) and amaurotics (humans without clairvoyant
powers). Unbeknownst to the vast majority of both voyants
(as the clairvoyants are called) and amaurotics, there
also exists another race of beings called the Rephaim who
are actually controlling everything. Samantha Shannon
does a marvelous job at immersing readers into the
various cultures that exist within these various races
while providing us a multilayered and fascinating story
at the same time.
THE MIME ORDER has a much slower plot build up than The
Bone Season as we are seeing Paige get acclimated back to
her own world after her horrific imprisonment. At times,
I was frustrated with Paige for her loyalty to Jaxon
Hall, her mime lord, as his treachery and cruelty seemed
so apparent to me. However, her loyalty and awakening to
the hardships of others makes her likable and even
admirable. By the end of the book, I was cheering right
along with the other characters for her to succeed.
THE MIME ORDER is a solid sequel to The Bone Season and
fans of the first book will relish the continued world
and character building. Samantha Shannon's world is not
static as she is willing to throw her characters and the
world itself into chaos with shocking twists and turns at
every corner. Samantha Shannon has hooked me completely
on The Bone Season series and I can't wait to see
just how the cliffhanger at the end turns out.
Paige Mahoney has escaped the brutal penal colony of Sheol
I, but her problems have only just begun: many of the
fugitives are still missing and she is the most wanted
person in London.
As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on Paige, the mime-lords
and mime-queens of the city’s gangs are invited to a rare
meeting of the Unnatural Assembly. Jaxon Hall and his
Seven
Seals prepare to take center stage, but there are bitter
fault lines running through the clairvoyant community and
dark secrets around every corner.
Then the Rephaim begin crawling out from the shadows. But
where is Warden? Paige must keep moving, from Seven Dials
to
Grub Street to the secret catacombs of Camden, until the
fate of the underworld can be decided. Will Paige know who
to trust? The hunt for the dream walker is on.
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