The Mime Order

Samantha Shannon Bloomsbury €19.50

Following on from her bestselling debut The Bone

Season, and the second in a proposed seven-book series, this sees Paige Mahoney, the dreamwalker heroine from the series opener, on the run from the brutal penal colony of Sheol I. Set in London in 2059, this supernatural dystopian fantasy will, for existing fans, be a riveting page-turner, but the complicated plot may leave others bewildered. Shannon’s prose is functional at best, occasionally torpid, but she creates a convincing world defined by its own invented logic.