Book: The Dark Mirror

 Book: The Dark Mirro

Author: Samantha Shannon

Pages: 576

This is my 50th read for the year

What Amazon says:

Everything is about to change.  Paige Mahoney is outside the Republic of Scion for the first time in more than a decade-but she has no idea how she got to the free world.  Half a year has been wiped from her memory.  Her journey back to the revolution soon takes her to Venice, where the Domino Programme has uncovered evidence of a secret Scion plan. Before Paige can return to London, she must help the network unravel the sinister Operation Ventriloquist, which threatens to bring Europe to its knees in weeks.  And it soon becomes clear that the one person who could recover her memories-Arcturus Mesarthim- might also hold the key to thwarting Scion, allowing the revolution to strike an unprecedented blow.

This is my most anticipated book for this year.  I am a Samantha Shannon fan - first reading the Priory of the Orange Tree series, and then going back and starting The Bone Season series - which now has 5 books.  There has been a long lull between book 4 and 5, but I was not aware of it until I read the author's note because I just started reading her books about 2 years ago.  Hopefully that is the end of the lull because this book's end showed that it is not a finished series and there are more to come.   Anyway!  The book was good.  The story flows well, and there is good character devleopment.  Paige and Arcturus further their relationshop and - side note - what I like about Shannon is that she doesn't make their relationship the center of her stories.  This would not fit well in a Romantasy category and I am glad and probably why I like her fantasy novels.  The story is pushed a long nicely making strides to what we readers believe is the ultimate goal.  What knocked this book for me one star was that I still feel that Paige is written a little too weak.  She is supposed to be the Underqueen of the whole criminal underworld, and yet she constantly need a nap.  It just seemed to be a little overdone.  Not enough for me to not want to keep reading the storyline.

Stars: 4