Dream On and on and on and on and on (or maybe it was the speed of the audio)

The last book in the Vault of Dreamers trilogy seemed endless to me.  The Keep of Ages just was not my thing.  I have to say though that it very well may have been the audio production and the speed at which I listened.  I had it up to 1.5 and the main character, Rosie, was just so whiny!  And so alarmist!  And just going on and on and on and in a panic throughout the whole book.  And it was really annoying.  It just ruined the book for me.  I mean, I was glad to find out how it all ended and I did care.  So it didn't ruin it, which says a lot about how much I do like Caragh M. O'Brien and the world she created here and also in Birthmarked. 
I see that I had a sort-of similar reaction to the third book in the Birthmarked series and so now I wonder if it is one of those deals where the publisher made O'Brien turn a one-book idea or a two-book idea into a trilogy.  That's what I think happened with Matched and what I know happened to Claws because the author is my friend.  Still, this was a good and unique premise.  Read the first two for sure and then if you listen to the third, play it at regular speed, you might like it!

What We See in the Mirror

The Rule of Mirrors is the second book in the Vault of Dreamers series by Caragh M. O'Brien who wrote the Birthmarked series.  I read the first one in the series, but during last year when I wasn't keeping up with the blog.  So all I can say is I really did like it!  And you really should start with the first one first.  The Rule of Mirrors is that we don't really see ourselves, ever, as others see us.  I was going to write "we don't really see ourselves as we really are" but that really isn't true, is it?  I mean, what is our "real self?"  The one that we see or the the one that others see?  Or are we many selves, like Naked Masks? Ah!  Big questions of little real import!  In any case, this is a very engaging series.  I am not quite a sucked into it as Birthmarked, but I can recommend it for sure!