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I'm not going to lie, this was my least favorite in the series. But it's still a solid 5/5 for me. I love this world, the story, the characters. We get a lot of exploration of Paige and her bff, her boo, her new position and struggles. I liked seeing Paige evolve with this story. I'm kinda worried about the next book, as I do NOT like the romance in this, and I feel like we're really going to flesh that out in the next book, but otherwise, I'm pumped to see the world we know expand even more. Hearing about and seeing other parts of the world deal with what London has is so interesting. This world just completely fascinates me. I also adored Shannon's portrayal of and tie-ins to real-time moments and discussions (waterboarding, etc). Another wonderful installment in this series.

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adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

bookishstone's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

catpingu's review against another edition

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adventurous tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This one is probably the most satisfying read of the series so far. There's less wishy-washy indecision and more "POW-POW BOOOM!" actions happening to fight the alien incursion. As a result, this book just wooshes by super fast.

Paige's first act as the the new Underqueen of the Scion Citadel of London is to get her newly-reformed Mime Order to protection as the Senshield is deployed around basic services around London. A new player has entered the game, Hildred Vance, the mastermind behind several successful Scion invasions in places like Ireland and Bulgaria. Vance has been tasked by Nashira to capture and incapacitate Paige and her Mime Order. As the noose tightens around the voyants of London, Paige throws herself farther and farther away from her syndicate to distract Vance's operatives and locate the source and manufacturing of the Senshield to prevent the Rephaim from total world domination.

*dramatic music* World Domination! Yes, the goal of <I>every</I> baddie in YA fiction, ever. Except, when, if ever, did President Snow or President Coin ever want world domination? Or even Supreme Commander Anderson? It's a propaganda and supporter-recruitment game as Nashira appeals to foreign powers to create more penal colonies and set up their own Scion citadels, and Paige is trying to get all the foreign voyant powers to band together and buck the reins right off these psychic vampires.

The best part of this book probably has to do with all the travel and world expansion Paige is doing. We've seen the basic citadel and penal colony set-up, we've solved the mystery of who murdered Hector the Underlord and the mafia politics of the syndicate, and now we're exploring more parts of the UK and how different or similar the voyant community survives away from the capital hotspot.

Unexpectedly,

Paige accidentally does a Trojan Horse and destroys Senshield at the end of the book, and in the next book she'll be shipped off to work with some secret spy network to...I guess, uncover the Rephaim's true aim or something?

Things are changing fast and so far Paige has done a great job keeping up.

barda's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

I just adore this book. It's set out very much like an action movie, which some readers weren't a huge fan of, but I loved the tense atmosphere that the faster-paced book made. And of course, I still love all the characters (I would let you commit arson Maria), and the further worldbuilding this book does of cities outside London.

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