My rating: 4 of 5 stars
My goodness I loved this book.
Amani is taken from all she knows and loves to be used as a pawn. She is forced to serve as the Princess' body double. Only...the princess is widely hated and is guaranteed to have many attempts on her life. Amani finds herself in the palace of the people who committed genocide ofher people.
She is now in a position to learn, to act, to do. But will she?
Refreshing setting and lands. I loved the detail and description that went into contrasting Amani's culture versus the palace. The bluebloods appropriate Amani's culture, yet despite it at its core. It's an interesting dynamic.
You'll have strangely unlikable characters you grow to understand and possibly like, if not at least understand. maybe. This to me was a major OHHH point in the book to me. People are raised as a product of their environment. They have the ability to be both good and/or evil, depending on their circumstances. I'm a sucker for this theme in any novel I read.
The love interest is meh and kinda like just thrown in there to help move Amani along and give her opportunities to grow and figure out who she wants to be. I wasn't crazy about him, but he fits well enough with the story so it works.
Mirage uses many tropes of YA dystopia:
1. oppressed people
2. Rebellion rising
3. Betrayals
4. Coming of age events
All in all a very generic and overly done plot and I loved every minute of it, bite me.
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