Book Review: The Mirador by Sarah Monette
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juushikaTitle: The Mirador (Doctrine of Labyrinths Book 3)
Author: Sarah Monette
Published: New York: Ace Books, 2007
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 426
Total Page Count: 135,550
Text Number: 397
Read Because: continuing the series, borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: With its magical focus restored, security returns to the Mirador and Felix can resume his position as one of its most powerful wizards. But the Bastion, a faction of dangerous rival wizards, sends spies and start plans which threaten this tenuous peace. The Mirador adds an unexpected but rewarding new protagonist, Mehitabel; vibrant characters and narratives have been the highlight in this series, and Mehitabel, too, shines from the page, bringing welcome diversity to the cast. But the plot—well, it doesn't flounder, but it's highly political and reactive: our protagonists don't affect it so much as they discover it. It's a functional vehicle for consistently fascinating, changable, and complex character interaction, but makes for a somewhat immemorable book. Nonetheless, The Mirador is a sequel in line with its predecessors, strongly peopled, voiced, and set; if you read the others, which you should, you'd do well to continue with on with this one, and I will complete the series—but I hope for a little more from the final book.
Review posted here on Amazon.com.
Author: Sarah Monette
Published: New York: Ace Books, 2007
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 426
Total Page Count: 135,550
Text Number: 397
Read Because: continuing the series, borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: With its magical focus restored, security returns to the Mirador and Felix can resume his position as one of its most powerful wizards. But the Bastion, a faction of dangerous rival wizards, sends spies and start plans which threaten this tenuous peace. The Mirador adds an unexpected but rewarding new protagonist, Mehitabel; vibrant characters and narratives have been the highlight in this series, and Mehitabel, too, shines from the page, bringing welcome diversity to the cast. But the plot—well, it doesn't flounder, but it's highly political and reactive: our protagonists don't affect it so much as they discover it. It's a functional vehicle for consistently fascinating, changable, and complex character interaction, but makes for a somewhat immemorable book. Nonetheless, The Mirador is a sequel in line with its predecessors, strongly peopled, voiced, and set; if you read the others, which you should, you'd do well to continue with on with this one, and I will complete the series—but I hope for a little more from the final book.
Review posted here on Amazon.com.
