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The Song Rising

Samantha Shannon

4.2 AVERAGE

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
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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
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adventurous dark 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

Paige Mahoney has her work cut out for her. In a stunning betrayal revealed in the last pages of The Mime Order, we get to zip right back in and see how that blow lands. It threatens to break her and the Order apart. Having to stay one step ahead of Scion and then the special forces puts Paige’s leadership and followers to the test. Any plot points from here out would be spoilers. The Song Rising is shorter than the others in the series but makes up for the page count in non-stop action. My heart was in my throat for the entire 350 pages. 

The fact that this book was published in 2017 is not lost on me. There are too many parallels to ignore to current events in the US to hand-wave it away. 

“…any organization that labeled one group of people as evil would eventually do the same to others. That to treat any one person as less than human was to cheapen the very substance of humanity.”

It’s why we (and they) must continue the fight. 
adventurous challenging fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous emotional 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: N/A
adventurous dark emotional inspiring 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

This book is my favorite of the series so far. There is not a dull moment as Paige takes on foe after foe.
I loved that we got to see her thought process as ruler and that SHE MADE MISTAKES!! But never gave up. Her resilience was admirable.
still not a huge fan of Arcturus but he was more interesting in this book versus The Mime Order. I’m excited to read The Mask Falling!

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