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The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
Aug. 28th, 2013 11:21 pmThe Blurb On The Back:
The year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon Hall. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people’s minds. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant and, in the world of Scion, she commits treason simply by breathing.
It is raining the day her life changes forever. Attacked, drugged and kidnapped, Paige is transported to Oxford – a city kept secret for two hundred years, controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. Paige is assigned to Warden, a Rephaite with mysterious movies. He is her master. Her trainer. Her natural enemy. But if Paige wants to regain her freedom she must allow herself to be nurtured in this prison where she is meant to die.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Samantha Shannon’s debut YA novel is a fantasy/dystopia mash-up that’s attracted a lot of attention due to the large advance paid for it. Unfortunately I found it a dull, plodding read with worldbuilding that alienates rather than engages and a main character who never really sparked into life. There’s a lot of detail in Shannon’s clairvoyance system, which I can see attracting a dedicated fandom but for me it got in the way of the story and as such, I will not be reading on.
THE BONE SEASON was released in the United Kingdom on 20th August 2013. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the ARC of this book.
The year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon Hall. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people’s minds. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant and, in the world of Scion, she commits treason simply by breathing.
It is raining the day her life changes forever. Attacked, drugged and kidnapped, Paige is transported to Oxford – a city kept secret for two hundred years, controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. Paige is assigned to Warden, a Rephaite with mysterious movies. He is her master. Her trainer. Her natural enemy. But if Paige wants to regain her freedom she must allow herself to be nurtured in this prison where she is meant to die.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Samantha Shannon’s debut YA novel is a fantasy/dystopia mash-up that’s attracted a lot of attention due to the large advance paid for it. Unfortunately I found it a dull, plodding read with worldbuilding that alienates rather than engages and a main character who never really sparked into life. There’s a lot of detail in Shannon’s clairvoyance system, which I can see attracting a dedicated fandom but for me it got in the way of the story and as such, I will not be reading on.
THE BONE SEASON was released in the United Kingdom on 20th August 2013. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the ARC of this book.
