Today I am launching the blog tour for The Mime Order, which is now out on paperback! I’ve just started reading The Mime Order and it is fantastic – it really builds upon the world set in Bone Season on voyants, an alternate London ruled by Mime-Lords and the unusual Rephaites wanting to take over. I’ll be reviewing the book soon!
Read my review for The Bone Season here. (It was a 5 Star read!)
Samantha Shannon has provided the character biographies below on the key characters of The Bone Season. Having such a different variety of characters, species, clairvoyant types and of course, their favourite food are all fascinating and make for a great dynamic in the series.
Paige Mahoney has escaped the brutal prison camp of Sheol I, but her problems have only just begun: many of the survivors are missing and she is the most wanted person in London…
As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on the dreamwalker, the mime-lords and mime-queens of the city’s gangs are invited to a rare meeting of the Unnatural Assembly. Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare to take centre stage, but there are bitter fault lines running through the clairvoyant community and dark secrets around every corner. Then the Rephaim begin crawling out from the shadows. But where is Warden? Paige must keep moving, from Seven Dials to Grub Street to the secret catacombs of Camden, until the fate of the underworld can be decided.
Paige Eva Mahoney (The Pale Dreamer; 40)
Birthday: 14 January 2040
Height: 5”9’
Species: Human
Clairvoyant type: Dreamwalker
Clairvoyant order: VII – Jumper
Birthplace: Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland
Favourite food: Roasted chestnuts
Jaxon Hall (The White Binder)
Birthday: 18 June 2011
Height: 6”1’
Species: Human
Clairvoyant type: Binder
Clairvoyant order: V – Guardian
Birthplace: Marylebone, London
Favourite food: Quails’ eggs
Arcturus Mesarthim (Warden)
Height: 6”9’
Birthday: Unknown
Species: Rephaite
Clairvoyant type: Oneiromancer
Clairvoyant order: Unknown
Birthplace: The Netherworld
Favourite food: Aura
Nicklas Alvar Nygård (The Red Vision)
Birthday: 30 October 2031
Height: 6”4’
Species: Human
Clairvoyant type: Oracle
Clairvoyant order: VII – Jumper
Birthplace: Mölle, Sweden
Favourite food: Apple cake
Eliza Renton (The Martyred Muse)
Birthday: 15 June 2036
Height: 5”5’
Species: Human
Clairvoyant type: Art medium
Clairvoyant order: III – Medium
Birthplace: London
Favourite food: Peanut brittle
The Mime Order is now out on paperback through Bloomsbury. $19.99.
About the Author
Samantha Shannon was born and raised in West London. From 2010 to 2013 she studied English Language and Literature at St Anne’s College, Oxford, where she specialised in Emily Dickinson and Principles of Film Criticism.
In 2012 she signed a book deal with Bloomsbury Publishing to publish the first three books in a seven-book series, beginning with The Bone Season. Film rights to the novel were optioned by Andy Serkis’s London-based production company The Imaginarium Studios in 2012, and acquired by Twentieth Century Fox and Chernin Studios in October 2013. The Bone Season has been translated into twenty-nine languages. Its first sequel, The Mime Order, will hit shelves on 27 January 2015.
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Thank you to Bloomsbury and Samantha Shannon for this guest post!
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This post is amazing. I like the books, I just finished The Mime Order. I have a hungarian fanpage about hte Bone Season sereies. I'd like to ask, that can I translate the character biographies and share on my blog?
The Mime Order was such a fantastic book! I'm so so excited to see what will come next in the third book! Cannot wait for the title to be revealed!!
Loved the character bios!
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I'm reading The Mime Order at the moment Jeann and absolutely loving it! It's one of the best dark fantasies I've read since The Darkest Minds series. Jaxon seems the type to sit and watch Masterchef with his roasted ducks nuts and a date sauce to die for. Really obscure dishes that no one else would eat. O my lovely. I love his character, he's such a flamboyant bastard 😀 Awesome tour stop Jeann, really enjoyed it <3
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So am I Kelly, it's taken me a long time to read it but I'm still enjoying it 🙂 I have a feeling it's going to get really epic soon. HAHAHA I LOVE the way you described Jaxon! Please put that in your review!
I really need to read this series…
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I really enjoy it Jodie!
Whoa, 6'9" … that's a huge dude. I like the little bios of the characters. This sounds great.
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Hehe yeah it adds a bit more to the characters I think 🙂 I love seeing their favourite food!
I really enjoyed the first book! I haven't felt the motivation to pick up the 2nd one just yet though because this series is so long!
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So did I Nick, I absolutely LOVED it! So far the 2nd book seems to be better without the info dumping and stuff but I really need to just sit down and read it.
First of all, screw Warden for being gigantic. I WISH I WAS THAT TALL. If I ever stood next……I just realized Warden isn't human so… (leaving this bit in here for your amusement)
I actually haven't read The Bone Season .-. When it first came out, reviews seemed to be all over the place so i wasn't sure whether or not the book would be for me…. I do like the characters' taste in food so I may just have to read the book.
Thank you for sharing this with us, Jeann <3
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Hahahha you are so hilarious Rashika! Well he is still massively tall for a Rephaim. I really loved The Bone Season, but it was hard to get into with all the different terminology and stuff. But stick with it, because it gets really good! No problems Rashika <3
Yay I'm a part of this blog tour as well! I love this series, but it all the different clairvoyances can definitely get overwhelming and so confusing.
OMG, not surprised at all that Jaxon's favourite food is quail eggs lel. So Jaxon.
Yeah, but surprisingly it isn\’t really about the clairvoyant powers actually. HAHA I know right?
Love, love, love this post! What an excellent post to launch with. I looooved both The Bone Season and The Mime Order–and I'm really, really looking forward to the third in the series. And haha, I agree with Aentee, this made me exceptionally hungry. 😉
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Yay, so glad you enjoyed it Kara! I am loving the 2nd book, just need to get more time to read it!
I bought The Bone Season last month and plan to read it very soon! I am so excited you enjoyed it. All these characters have fantastic taste in food so I think I'll get along with them well. This post is making me so hungry haha.
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ahha I don\’t know why it didn\’t occur to me before to add photos of the food to this one! The characters are great, knowing your tastes in books I think you\’d love it too <3