The Memory of Babel by Christelle Dabos

 The Memory of Babel by Christelle Dabos (La Passe-Miroir #3), 508 p.

"In the gripping third volume of Christelle Dabos’s best-selling saga, Ophelia, the mirror-travelling heroine, finds herself in the magical city of Babel, guarding a secret that may provide a key both to the past and the future.

After two years and seven months biding her time on Anima, her home ark, it is finally time to act, to put what she has discovered in the Book of Faruk to good use. Under an assumed identity she travels to Babel, a cosmopolitan and thoroughly modern ark that is the jewel of the universe, and where automata have taken over the most humble jobs from humans. But under the surface of this pacific and orderly ark social unrest stirs, fed by the memories of a fateful purge long ago, and the inhabitants’ growing fear of being replaced altogether. Will Ophelia’s talent as a reader suffice to avoid her being lured into a deadly trap by her ever more fearful adversaries? Will she ever see Thorn, her betrothed, again?" -- Amazon blurb

Same unlikeable characters (with a few redeeming scenes), same unique writing and storyline. The setting of this book takes a different turn and we have several new characters (mostly unlikeable, shocking). There is one more book to be translated from the French coming this fall, and I will be reading it. I don't regret reading this series, but I'm not totally sure why. The writing is good and the storyline interesting enough to keep me coming back!