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I kept waiting for this to come out in paperback, which it never did, but had to order in hardback find out what became of Kiki Strike, who, at the end of the previous book, was revealed as the lost Princess Katarina of Pokrovia, and the rest of the "Irregulars," including our narrator Ananka. Kiki and her guardian are on their way to Pokrovia to claim the throne and then renounce it so that the small country will remain a republic. But she's waylaid by her evil aunt and cousin, who want more than anything to rule Pokrovia again, and held captive in Paris.

Back in New York, Ananka Fishbein and the rest of Kiki's offbeat gang of Irregulars are concerned when their friend doesn't check in. Eventually the shyest member of the team, Betty Bent, is sent to France on the track of Kiki, while Ananka and her friend Molly Donovan wage war on an elite New York school that turns out "Stepford students" and Oona Wong's identical sister makes her life miserable.

This is a wild ride involving sinister conspiracies, the ossuaries and catacombs of Paris, an underground group called the Darkness Dwellers that go back to the second World War, a disgraced spy, Ananka's headmistress, the headstrong Molly Donovan, another of DeeDee's crazy inventions, and even Ananka's mother. But the best part about the story is how Betty comes into her own. A great conclusion to the Kiki Strike trilogy.


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Kiki StrikeInside the Shadow City Kirsten Miller 9781582349602 Books Reviews

I like the books well enough to read the entire series. The under-underground city premise is very interesting and creative. THe girls also seem to be getting older in the books and the author does a good job of changing their interests and mentalities as they grow. The one thing that I don't like about the series is that the girls weather all of the kidnappings and hardships together and yet they (after 3 books) still don't trust each other. It seems like the should by now. There is another series called "Cold Fury" that is similar in that there is a hidden underground city. It takes place in Chicago and would be a very good follow-up to the Kiki Strike books. Hurray for girl Fridays and the fact that sex is not a necessary part of a good story.
There is so much to recommend this book that it is hard to know where to begin! I wanna be a girl scout! I want to be dangerous! I want to be an irregular!!! I knew almost immediately what great hands I was in; Kirsten Miller rapid-fire and hilarious mind in stamped on every single page. But it was when I was halfway through the book (and out in the weeds as far as the mystery was concerned) when I realized I was up against a formidable mystery worth of an Agatha Christy novel. I love good mysteries. Don't get me wrong, I like stories where I can see the ending coming a mile away. When I first saw Star Wars, and that Death Star showed up on the screen? Yeah, it didn't take more than a few seconds to know exactly how THAT was going to end. But, to be midway through an entertaining read, and NOT know where the author is taking me! That is not only rare, but wonderful! And I learned all kinds of stuff I never knew! And about subjects I never thought I would learn things about! )

Thank you, Kirsten Miller, for setting Kiki Strike loose on the world. I will never walk the streets of New York City and look them the same way again. Now where did they hang those pirate heads? Let me get out maps!

I can't wait to read book two (which I purchased before I even finished the first one), but now I'm off to either book 2 in the Sisters Grimm series, or Lemony Snicket's Ersatz Elevator. Somebody got a coin I can flip?
Kiki Strike is the just the type of heroine I'm always looking for. Smart, fearless, resourceful and just all around cool! The narrator Ananka is amazing and makes me smile--reminds me of how much fun being a curious and daredevil girl can be. It's been so refreshing to read about an angst-free kick-butt heroine and real girl friendships, not gossip girl backstabbing.

What I really love about this book is that author Kristin Miller actually understands the basic fact that setting a novel in a cosmopolitan and diverse city like New York means that the characters should reflect that diversity. NOTHING irks me more than a supposed "urban fantasy/adventure" novel in which everyone seems to be predominantly white. To authors set your novels somewhere like Fargo if you want racial homogenity, NOT Los Angeles, Seattle or San Francisco!

Kiki's cohorts, a group of disaffected Girl Scouts--The Irregulars--are girls from various backgrounds with some very interesting "hobbies". Betty Bent is a mistress of disguise who prefers to be someone else rathet than herself (but for very interesting reasons); Luz Lopez is the mechanical wizard who probably owns a shirt that says I VOID WARRANTIES; Dee DeMorlock wears dreadlocks and is a chemistry genius who doesn't mind blowing things up; Oona Wong hacks into computers and forges documents just because it's fun; Ananka Fishbein is the queen of books and libraries.

There's danger, a horrid private school with its own snobby princess who is more than she seems, loyalty, lots of comedy and some really good advice for planning escape routes and even how to foil a kidnapping (and the advice is serious). Kiki is a mystery and all The Irregulars have pasts and presents that make them real and sympathetic while cheering them on. And though this is a series for YA, I know a lot of us adults would enjoy the world of Kiki Strike and wish we had friends as awesomely cool as The Irregulars
I kept waiting for this to come out in paperback, which it never did, but had to order in hardback find out what became of Kiki Strike, who, at the end of the previous book, was revealed as the lost Princess Katarina of Pokrovia, and the rest of the "Irregulars," including our narrator Ananka. Kiki and her guardian are on their way to Pokrovia to claim the throne and then renounce it so that the small country will remain a republic. But she's waylaid by her evil aunt and cousin, who want more than anything to rule Pokrovia again, and held captive in Paris.

Back in New York, Ananka Fishbein and the rest of Kiki's offbeat gang of Irregulars are concerned when their friend doesn't check in. Eventually the shyest member of the team, Betty Bent, is sent to France on the track of Kiki, while Ananka and her friend Molly Donovan wage war on an elite New York school that turns out "Stepford students" and Oona Wong's identical sister makes her life miserable.

This is a wild ride involving sinister conspiracies, the ossuaries and catacombs of Paris, an underground group called the Darkness Dwellers that go back to the second World War, a disgraced spy, Ananka's headmistress, the headstrong Molly Donovan, another of DeeDee's crazy inventions, and even Ananka's mother. But the best part about the story is how Betty comes into her own. A great conclusion to the Kiki Strike trilogy.