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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
When I read this book the first time, I didn't much like it - only the last third felt like the story had found its beat again.
However, upon my re-read, I don't share this opinion much anymore. Yes, there is more movement and location changes compared to the first two books, but I really liked that we got to see more of the new Mime Order, but also more of the world outside London.
Paige's doubts towards Arcturus' motives at the beginning (sown by Jaxon's word) are understandable, but at time I really wanted to shake her.
Re-reading the story again, I also realized how close everything happens after one another and how much change (good and bad) Paige has gone through and how much she tries to achieve while The Anchor tightens its hold on London, imposing more and more restrictions on the voyants and also being able to detect them better and better, and the voyants of London are not all on board with Paige's change in course and outright opposition to Scion.
I believe there were a few things (as in the other book) that already set up things futher down the line and I can't wait to see them and lose my mind.
However, upon my re-read, I don't share this opinion much anymore. Yes, there is more movement and location changes compared to the first two books, but I really liked that we got to see more of the new Mime Order, but also more of the world outside London.
Paige's doubts towards Arcturus' motives at the beginning (sown by Jaxon's word) are understandable, but at time I really wanted to shake her.
Re-reading the story again, I also realized how close everything happens after one another and how much change (good and bad) Paige has gone through and how much she tries to achieve while The Anchor tightens its hold on London, imposing more and more restrictions on the voyants and also being able to detect them better and better, and the voyants of London are not all on board with Paige's change in course and outright opposition to Scion.
I believe there were a few things (as in the other book) that already set up things futher down the line and I can't wait to see them and lose my mind.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs, Torture, Violence
Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I can't wait to advertise the Mime
Order to the n-northerners. "Join
Paige Mahoney for unexpected
rambles through snow and shit," Maria bit out through chattering teeth.
Summed up perfectly by Maria - this book is Paige making roughly 31 ridiculous decisions in a row. Some of them work out to be genius and some of them are.....really incredibly idiotic. It's a coin toss every time she makes a call. Her poor inner circle must have whiplash constantly.
We see more of Scion England (including the former Scotland) in this book - the slow unfurling of the whole world that has been built in these books is brilliantly done. This is the first book where I've wished we had perspectives other than Paige's though - hearing from voiyants of the Manchester and Edinburgh communities would have really added to this book.
There are parts of this book that were incredibly well done and then parts that just felt overly unrealistic to me even when based in this world. Largely because I never doubted that Paige would somehow survive - and again, other perspectives here may have suggested she wasn't indispensable. She's traumatised, yes, but she also makes decisions as though she isn't at the head of an entire community that could also help so that everyone is protected better and it began to drive me slightly insane.
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes