Jan 26

Jan 26 The Mime Order (The Bone Season, #2)

About the book

Author: Samantha Shannon
Publisher: Bloomsbury

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My Review

I recently read The Bone Season and absolutely loved it; it was exactly the kind of epic urban fantasy I didn’t even know I was craving. This is the second book of the series, which is planned for seven books (the fifth of which just came out two weeks ago). I had a great time once again, and even though I can objectively recognize the second book syndrome, I didn’t care; my enthusiasm is just as high.

The fact of the matter is that the pacing of this one wasn’t as good as The Bone Season; I felt like I waited a really long time for the meat of it, which all came at the end. Things aren’t helped by the fact that we have a whole different setting filled with characters we barely knew from book one. That meant there was a lot of re-expositioning to do, all while we are wondering about the main plot burbling behind the scenes. Basically, it was definitely a bridge book to set up the rest of the series, linking our two main settings (and groups of characters) together.

And yet I can’t complain. I still had fun! Plus, when you have seven books planned, naturally you’re going to have stages of the story that feel like this along the way. This book is clearly setting up a LOT of room for the rest of the series to run, which I find extremely exciting!