The Mime Order

      Well, I have been preeeeettttyyyy busy these last few weeks because ya know...Creative Non-Fiction and life. It's all good though I enjoyed the project, but that meant I didn't have much time for reading. I started this book while on break and read some when we came back. It's the sequel to a book called The Bone Season. In order to sit down and read this book, you have to be in the right mood and like these kind of books. By these kinds of books, I mean dystopian societys, because this series introduces a whole new world, called the Aether, that can be very very confusing and leaving you sitting there thinking how'd that happen or wait what. I know it certainly did that to me. That's what I meant by 'Right mood' because you'll have to think a lot during this book and always be connecting the dots. Even if you're not in the "Right Mood." Shannon does such an excellent job of compelling the plot forward and she can pull you into that "Right Mood" and before you know you'll have read 75 pages. Just like me!

    We all need to thank Samantha Shannon because she was kind enough to leave 5 or so maps and a chart of all the different Clairvoyants. Ah yes, the Clairvoyants, the people with uncanny ability to connect to the Aether through different ways. Without the information listed above the reader would be left stranded in the dark. Here, let me give you an example, "The Augur and I traveled to I-2, got off the metro without being detected by any Poltergeists, then got on another metro to I-4 to meet the Binder," (Shannon 74). The wha wha and what? If you read the first, you would know what these are but if you just flipped there and read it, you would be so confused. That's why I find myself constantly flipping to map and charts in the back because without it we would be questioning everything.

    While this is a good book, you have to read the first book first, well I mean, it makes sense, but in other series you can just pick up a book with some random number on the cover. However! That is not the case with this book. It would make no sense whatsoever because this book picks up right where The Bone Season left off. I plan on continuing this book soon and you should too if you like dystopian books on steroids,