Friday, February 20, 2015

Review: The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon

Title: The Mime Order
Author: Samantha Shannon
Genre: Dystopia/Fantasy
Series: The Bone Season #2
Publication Date: 27th January 2015
Pages: 528
Book Source: Bloomsbury Publishing & NetGalley

Synopsis: Paige Mahoney has escaped the brutal prison camp of Sheol I, but her problems have only just begun: many of the survivors are missing and she is the most wanted person in London...

As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on the dreamwalker, 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 centre 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.

My Thoughts:
I loved the complexity of the world in The Bone Season and was very excited to get my hands on The Mime Order, the 2nd installment in the seven book series set in a corrupt Scion controlled London. 

I have to confess I struggled at first, this book is a brick at 500+ pages. I'm not sure whether it was the re-acclimatising myself with the world or maybe I wasn't in the right frame of mind but initially it was hard work. Then 150 pages in .... bam, addicted!!

In The Mime Order the focus turns to London and the syndicated underworld. After her escape from Sheol I, dreamwalker Paige Mahoney returns to mime-lord Jaxon Hall and the Seven Seals but her attention is concentrated on revealing the truth of the Rephaim race to the voyant community. Jaxon is that love-to-hate character. He's cruel, manipulative and fascinating in a creepy smiling-assassin kind of way, and the cat-and-mouse exchanges between Jaxon and Paige had my heart in my mouth.  

Paige is all you could want in a kick-ass heroine, she really comes into her own in this installment, tough physically and mentally and her voyant skills are freakin' awesome. And Warden, he's such a intriguing, enigmatic character, I missed him not being around for practically the first half of the book but I love Paige and Warden 'together' .... gotta love a slow burn.  

It's dark, intense and thoroughly immersive and builds to a shit-hot end.  


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14 comments:

  1. Sounds great!! I would probably struggle with a book that long too! :)

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    1. It wasn't the length Julie it was the tough start but that could have just been me lol. Was worth sticking with it :)

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  2. Sounds like it was very worth hanging in there for, sometimes that's the way with books. Paige and Warden sound wonderful characters and I just shiver at your words with Jaxon Hall.

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    1. Yeah someone should have killed him when they had the chance haha. I'm glad I stuck with it ... now the long wait to the next installment!

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  3. I've got to get The Bone Season finished!

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    1. Would probably be good to go straight on to The Mime Order while The Bone Season was fresh in your mind.

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  4. I still have The Bone Season on my to-read list! Loks like I need to get busy.

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    1. yup get to it Stacy ;) let me know what you think!

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  5. I still have to finish The Bone Season, but this sequel looks good!

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    1. keen to see where the series goes, another 5 books is a pretty big call!

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  6. I need to get Bone from the library

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    1. I think this is right up your alley B ... hope you pick it up soon!

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  7. I am a 100 pages in, and it's wonderful but I can't seem to slip in..I think it is me

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    1. Keep going Kimberly, hopefully you'll get addicted just like I did, the 2nd half of the book flew by :)

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