*** I would like to thank Netgalley, Serial Box Publishing and the author Gwenda Bond for sending me this digital copy of Mirror of Fate in exchange for an honest review***

Seyah doesn't trust Holden. She blames him for everything that has happened to her. I'm not really liking her attitude. She's kind of mean when thinking of Holden. Maybe I just feel bad for the guy. Everything he does is because of her and she doesn't even notice or care. Seyah wants to do her own thing.

We get to see Seyah's life through flashbacks. She's pretty and popular, has a conservative Persian family, with a cop as a dad. But were okay with her wanting to act. It was nice reading about a different culture then mine. Her friends were kind of meangirlish. Laughing at her dreams, not very supportive. Back with the group of teens, she starts a new friendship.

There's more discoveries in this episodes. I think Seyah is probably my least favorite character in this series so far. She's just mean, or I just feel bad for Holden. It wasn't completely his fault why they are there but to be nice, cus that's how Holden is, he isn't going to tell her. So far I'm enjoying these stories, I want to see what else they find and where exactly are they.

This episode focuses on Seyah.
I don't like her very much. I don't know if it is her personality or how she handles Holden but I truly don't care about her so, for me, this episode wasn't as good as the other ones.
The plot was fine and there were major decisions made that will change the course of the next episodes but, because I didn't care about the main character of the episode, I couldn't like this episode.
Still, I'm enjoying the series so far and I want to continue reading it.

I don't know what it is about the point-of-view characters lately but they are just not working for me. I've also noticed that there's been a lot of racism in these past few episodes as well that sprouted up and I'm just wondering why. Not that it isn't...realistic isn't quite the right word, but I'm not saying that racism shouldn't exist in fiction to be challenged by the characters, but that it's not really being challenged and didn't start to become present until recently. There have been plenty of opportunities for the characters to push back against it and nothing's happened. Ugh. 

I liked that we get more of Seyah's background. It was nice. That's all I really have to say about it. Nice, but this episode, once again, felt like it was going nowhere. This story feels like it's going nowhere. In particular, this episode felt like a bit of fluff before the action happens but I've learned not to get my hopes up with this serial. 

Per usual, the writing was great. I love Gwenda Bond's Girl on a Wire and enjoyed her writing style, if not the content. It was good to see one of the "mystery" characters fleshed out a bit and I'm always left questioning. But I'm ready for answers and for this story to take some sort of direction.

Seyah makes a discovery to the delight of the whole group and gains some time to reflect. With her dreams of Broadway dashed with her untimely death, she can only wonder what the future holds…and if a special someone has already been cast as her co-star.

Another good episode to the ReMade saga. Seyah finds a nice comfortable spring for the group to a little much needed r&r, while also discovering the dead body of a care-taker that seems to be out of sorts in comparison to the others they’ve seen. Foreshadowing anyone? It also seems like Seyah may be finding out a little more about herself than she ever gave her self the chance to notice when she was alive.

This episode was a little like a filler episode in the fact that not much happens action wise. We do get a little more background into Seyah, and how she came to be “ReMade”, but Seyah hasn’t been one of my favorite characters so I did have a hard time being in her head. Still looking forward to the next episode though.

ARC received via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Book 10: Mirror of Fate
Star rating - ★★☆☆☆
POV – Seyah
Would I read it again – No.

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And, once again, Holden was ignored and proven right in the end. I'm not going to keep repeating myself about this, because it's kind of pointless at this late stage.

Seyah wasn't a good POV, since I already had no reason to like her. All throughout the series she's been the whiney objector to anything and everything Holden's ever said, only because she doesn't want to admit that she knew he was flirting in their previous life, she led him on to believe it might go somewhere and then, in an attempt to avoid letting him admit his feelings – where she might actually have to brush him off – she flirted in a way that caused the crash that took their lives. And then blamed him. *rolls eyes*

Yeah, not a POV I wanted to read, thank you very much. Especially since it's been clear since Inez arrived that the two have been dancing around each other only to end up with a will-they-wont-they situation in this story, too.

Again, we have an inherent racism (which has actually been a subtle recurrent theme throughout the series), this time from a mixed-race character, Seyah, against a “white girl”, mimicking the same racism of the previous episode. I'm not sure if it's an attempt to show that mixed-race and Asian girls can be as racist against white girls as white girls can be to them. Either way, it only frustrated me.

To really sum up my feelings on this story, I'm going to share these two quotes, because they both made me angry for reasons I've already mentioned in previous episodes. But the point is this – no one EVER learns and, apart from a few, they're all too selfish to see sense. The only characters who had a good, logical part in the story and a brain have been killed or, like Holden, are ignored. The rest are treated like total rockstars for just uttering the same thing over and over and over again. But, you know what? They can dump on Holden, Umna and Loki for their caution all they like, but in the end, they're going to be the only ones left alive while everyone else takes the risks that get people killed.

““He thinks it's a trap,” Seyah said.
“Yeah,” Holden agreed, frowning at her. “I do. We know it's just as likely – maybe more likely – to be caretakers keeping the lights on as it is people.”
“Not all caretakers are bad news,” Inez spoke up. “The one Teddy and I were around first was harmless enough.”
“I still don't know if I believe that,” Loki said.”

“Inez gave a snort-laugh at that.
“What?” Holden asked.
“I'm just wondering,” Inez said. “have you ever done anything impulsive? Ever taken a risk?”
Teddy said, “Burn.”
Holden sputtered. “I – Well – ”
His eyes went to Seyah, and she wasn't sure if he was waiting for backup or what. He looked at her oddly, like she knew some impulsive thing he'd done. Interesting.
She stayed quiet.
“I don't want to take risks with anyone's safety,” he finally said.
“We all still have a voice, right?” Inez said. “We each have a vote. There's no reward without risks. Sometimes you have to take them and see where you land.”
Tension stretched out between Inez and Holden. No one else said another word, but everyone was watching. And, Seyah guessed, choosing their sides.
“Why don't we think about it overnight and vote tomorrow?” Seyah suggested, keeping her tone light.
If they voted right now, Holden might win. But she thought the longer the others had to see the city on the horizon, the more unable they'd be to walk away from it.”