I have loved @scott_westerfeld’s Uglies series since I read it back when I first started teaching, and I have been loving revisiting it in this incredible follow-up YA dystopian series 20 years after Tally Youngblood led a revolution to change the world. In Imposter we met Frey and Rafi, twin daughters of the ruler of Shreve. Whilst Rafi is nurtured by her father to be a beloved diplomat and figurehead, Frey is a secret – a highly trained but disposable body double, wirh expert combat skills and only valuable in her role of keeping her sister alive and safe. In Mirror’s Edge, book 3 in this thrilling saga, Rafi is gathering a rebel army outside the city, whilst Frey ventures back into Shreve on a secret rescue mission, which necessitates a disguise – and after going through camp-surge to change her face and identity, she not only has to deal with the dangers surrounding her if she is discovered, but also has to come to terms with what it means to no longer be her sister’s mirror image.

This is another cracker of a book, with some really interesting reflections (no pun intended!) on notions of power, authority, individuality and freedom. I’m very much looking forward to the final book in the series – at which point I will hopefully have made a decision about what to do about these damned mismatching covers! I really do love publishers and authors, but when they decide to redesign the covers of a series partway through publication, I swear …. sigh. Thanks for the shelf is dilemma, Allen and Unwin!