The nonstop, often eerie action is riveting. “Shannon creates vividly dilapidated, macabre, and mysterious worlds. “If anyone was wondering how Shannon would stretch this story into seven books, the gut punch of the last line in The Mime Order will instead have them on tenterhooks for the next five.” - USA Today Her fans will be calling for more.” - NPR.org Like Paige Mahoney, Shannon now has proven staying power. Shannon's haunting dystopian universe is rich in detail, consistent, suffused with familiar afternotes. Paige Mahoney, a powerful dreamwalker operating in the Seven Dials district of London, leads a double life, using her unnaturalness illegally while hiding her gift from her father, who works for the Scion regime.“An intoxicating urban-fantasy series. Forced underground, a clairvoyant underworld has developed, combating persecution and evading capture. Clairvoyance in all its forms has been decreed a criminal offence, and those who practise it viciously punished. Paige is desperate to reach the safety of the London underworld, but the ruthless leader of the Rephaim, Nashira Sargas, is not likely to let her escape so easily.įor the past two hundred years the Scion government has led an oppressive campaign against unnaturalness in London. In an unprecedented feat of bravery, Paige Mahoney has succeeded in leading a mass break-out from the brutal camp, Sheol I, where she and other clairvoyants were systematically imprisoned.
But, having turned her back on Jaxon Hall and with vengeful enemies still at large, the task of stabilising the fractured underworld has never seemed so challenging.
Following a bloody battle against foes on every side, Paige Mahoney has risen to the dangerous position of Underqueen, ruling over London's criminal population.
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