Paige Mahoney has her work cut out for her. In a stunning betrayal revealed in the last pages of The Mime Order, we get to zip right back in and see how that blow lands. It threatens to break her and the Order apart. Having to stay one step ahead of Scion and then the special forces puts Paige’s leadership and followers to the test. Any plot points from here out would be spoilers. The Song Rising is shorter than the others in the series but makes up for the page count in non-stop action. My heart was in my throat for the entire 350 pages. 

The fact that this book was published in 2017 is not lost on me. There are too many parallels to ignore to current events in the US to hand-wave it away. 

“…any organization that labeled one group of people as evil would eventually do the same to others. That to treat any one person as less than human was to cheapen the very substance of humanity.”

It’s why we (and they) must continue the fight.