The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon

The Mime Order (The Bone Season, #2)

by Samantha Shannon

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.

Reviewed by Joséphine on

3 of 5 stars

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Actual rating: 3.5 stars

Initial thoughts: I enjoyed The Mime Order a great deal more than The Bone Season. Couldn't get over my reservations with regards to Paige and Warden, but besides that, things were better. I preferred the setting of SciLo to Sheol, where a lot more things were happening. Although, the first third of the book was so uninteresting, I hardly even remember what all that was about. After that, the plot finally got moving, and the characters came to life, along with their various motives.

The book could've been condensed and been much tighter if it had been cut down to 350 to 400 pages. There was a lot of information that went over my head. It didn't really add much to the storytelling. Rather, it seemed to have been thrown in to show that the world building had been thought through down to the second. Good thing The Song Rising isn't as long, so I have hope that it'll be an even better book.

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