The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
(Format used for this book: Print–paperback)
One of my favorite places in all the land is a used book store.
When I went to DC for a girls weekend with my NOVA friends in August, me and my girls came across a gem of one a couple blocks from our hotel.
This was one of my finds and I just now am getting around to it.
Here is the summary:
“The New York Times bestselling first novel in the Bone Season series, an epic fantasy about a young woman fighting to use her powers and stay alive in an England entirely different from our own.
In 2059, Scion has taken over most of the world’s cities, promising safety for all the citizens it deems worthy and wiping out clairvoyants wherever it can find them.
Paige Mahoney, though, is a clairvoyant–and a criminal just for existing. Paige is determined to fight Scion’s power, and as part of the Seven Seals, Paige has found a use for her powers: she scouts for information by breaking into others’ minds as they dream.
But when Paige is captured and arrested, she encounters a power more sinister even than Scion. The voyant prison is a separate city, controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. These creatures, the Rephaim, value the voyants highly-as soldiers in their army.
Paige is assigned to a Rephaite keeper, Warden, who will be in charge of her care and training. He is her master. Her natural enemy. But if she wants to regain her freedom, Paige will have to learn something of his mind and his own mysterious motives.
The Bone Season introduces a compelling heroine-a young woman learning to harness her powers in a world where everything has been taken from her. It 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.”
I have to admit that this book was super interesting BUT moved kinda slow for me.
There were A LOT of made up terms to remember (she even had a glossary in the back and a guide in the front for this reason) so I did get a little lost at times.
The characters and story line were interesting and had my imagination going full force but I can’t say anything was super memorable or impactful.
I liked this book OKAY and it is the first one in a series…but I’m still on the fence if I’ll read any more of them.
Fantasy dystopian thriller usually is my kinda jam…but this one only halfway got me.
I’m kinda half and half about it 🤷♀️
Sooooo if this is your type of genre I say it’s worth a shot….it could go either way for you!