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 for ever. 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 motives. 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 Bone Season introduces a compelling heroine and also introduces an extraordinary young writer, with huge ambition and a teeming imagination. Samantha Shannon has created a bold new reality in this riveting debut.
This review was originally posted on The Bumbling Bookworm
I DNFed this one at 60 pages. I think I got this in a bag of goodies at a book event, but it was never a book I was particularly drawn to - the premise never really appealed to me. Unfortunately I was bored and confused while reading this - I know there was chart at the beginning of the book but it was just so overwhelming even to look at it, and I didn't really understand the world. I don't expect to have a full understanding of a world 60 pages into a book, but what I read had a lot of info-dumpy world building and I didn't even understand that. It was giving me a headache to read and I just didn't care enough to keep reading TBH.
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