The Dark Mirror
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- Expected 25 Feb 2025
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- 19,99 €
Publisher Description
From New York Times bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree – the soaring fifth novel in the bestselling Bone Season series.
'A fabulous, epic fantasy thriller ... Lavish, ebullient, escapist' The Times
'Samantha Shannon is a master storyteller and wordsmith' Katherine Webber
'Blazing a trail for a new generation of feminist fantasy authors' Grazia
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.
As she makes her way back to the revolution, her journey takes her to Venice, where she learns a dangerous secret – one that could change the face of the war between humans and immortals. Before she can return to London, she must help the Domino Programme unravel the sinister Operation Ventriloquist.
And it soon becomes clear that the one person who could recover her memories – Arcturus Mesarthim – might also hold the key to saving Italy.
Lyrical, touching and action-packed, The Dark Mirror drives the bestselling Bone Season series forward, showing Samantha Shannon at the height of her powers.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Shannon expands the world of her Bone Season series in this pedal-to-the-metal fifth installment (after 2021's The Mask Falling). It opens with series heroine Paige Mahoney awakening in an unfamiliar hotel somewhere outside of the Republic of Scion without any memory of the past six months. Paige, a 20-year-old with ESP, works to make her way back to her home and the struggle against the Sargas, a subgroup of the Rephaim, "immortal humanoids of the Netherworld," who traveled to Earth after a Rephaim civil war and have been attempting to control human clairvoyants. Her journey takes her through Venice, where she learns of a new Sargas plot: Operation Ventriloquist, a scheme to overtake governments "from within" by turning their leaders into puppets. The stakes are high, the pace is rapid, and Shannon's gift for evocative prose makes the shadowy streets of Venice come alive. Readers who need their memories jogged regarding both the characters' elaborate backstories and Shannon's frequent neologisms will find a comprehensive glossary at the back of the book. Series fans will be thrilled.
