The Bone Season: Author’s Preferred Text
Paperback Published on: 28/03/2024
Price: £9.99
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Genre Breaking
The book starts with diagrams and the breakdown of clairvoyant powers, but trust me you can skip this. Samantha Shannon incorporates the complex history of... READ MORE
Amazing
Consider me hooked. This book is amazing and I hope that the rest of the series is as amazing as The Bone Season. Samantha Shannon is a fantastic writer wh... READ MORE
Gets In Your Brain!
I could not keep away from Shannon's lyrical genius.
I was a little dubious as there has been talk of 7-9 books in this series but, as I await new Laini Ta... READ MORE
Something a little different.
One of my favourite books in the last few years, The Bone Season is a gripping dystopian sci-fi novel. I read it on the recommendation of a friend and have... READ MORE
The start of something exciting...
I love dystopian fiction but there has been an awful lot of samey stuff over the last few years...at last, an original fresh voice in Samantha Shannon. Mix... READ MORE
Worthy of the hype
One of my favourites of the year so far.
Usually if there's too much to take in when reading a new fantasy landscape I can become quite easily bored or fat... READ MORE
A brilliant new series
I'm very excited about this new series, it promises to be truly brilliant. Like a mix between The Hunger Games and Harry Potter but with an adult edge this... READ MORE
One to watch...
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and am already impatient for the next in the series! As a massive fan of the sci fi fantasy genre I love finding new author... READ MORE
Dystopian + Fantasy = Awesome
Paige's world is so exciting; it's full of magic, mystery and danger!
It's a very refreshing take on a dystopian genre with the beautiful writing, the lang... READ MORE
Loved every word
I really enjoyed reading The Bone Season. It's exciting, intriguing and sexy and I love the settings of London and Oxford. Samantha Shannon’s world-buildin... READ MORE
Brilliantly Written
With the tenth anniversary edition’s extensive rewrites and edits, Shannon’s debut dystopian fantasy is compulsively readable, brilliantly written and rich... READ MORE
A fascinating world (review contains spoilers)
I really enjoyed this book but it definitely isn't without it flaws. Shannon has created a deeply interesting dystopia and I couldn't get enough of the wor... READ MORE
Exciting, suspenseful dystopia meets fantasy!
What I loved the most about this book has to be the characters. Varying and complex, you are kept on your toes the whole way through, figuring out their tr... READ MORE
Intriguing...
The Bone Season has a little bit of everything – a bit sci-fi, a bit fantasy, a bit dystopian, a bit mystery - and Samantha Shannon has created a complex w... READ MORE
Rising Star!
So I started The Bone Season expecting quite a good read, she's a young author who had excellent reviews and some nice people saying "the next JK Rowling" ... READ MORE
Amazing rewrite
I thought the original Bone Season was fine but I didn't stand and out and I was shocked when I realised it was from the same author as the Priory of the O... READ MORE
Incredible!!
I LOVED the Bone Season! It's *completely* different from Priory of the Orange Tree but it's just as good, and I was engrossed in this from the first page!... READ MORE
One of the best fantasy books out there!!
This is exactly the kind of fantasy book that I love. Deeply political, with fighting against totalitarianism and corruption, this book was honestly perfec... READ MORE
Lyrical and imaginative!
Being hailed as the next JK Rowling, Shannon’s got a lot of pressure on her. It’s a little bit unfair, really. Because don’t expect Harry Potter. I’m sayin... READ MORE
A brilliant introduction to a fascinating world
I loved Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon, and when I saw she was rewriting this series I knew I finally had to give it a go, and I'm so glad I... READ MORE
A little clunky...but enjoyable!
A really original and interesting fantasy setting. I do feel as if the prose and readability aren't as strong as some of Shannon's other works despite this... READ MORE
Potentially brilliant
To add perspective, I adore Samantha Shannon's 'Roots of Chaos' series, and was waiting for this edition to come out to begin The Bone Season series. I als... READ MORE
A fantastically written book with a gripping plot and amazing characters!
The world Samantha Shannon has created is a very interesting one! I liked Paige a lot as a MC. She was strong and smart and it was easy to understand her e... READ MORE
Dystopian Fantasy - a combination that is new to me and which I very much enjoyed!
This book jumps straight into action followed by some fairly heavy exposition, the latter putting me off somewhat on my first attempt at reading this. But,... READ MORE
A gripping piece of dystopian fiction
The Bone Season is a dystopian novel set in a near-future England that follows Paige Mahoney, a high-ranking member of the criminal underworld, who must hi... READ MORE
Obsessed!
I picked this series up on a whim expecting a fun, one-time read following the clairvoyant Paige and instead found a story of longing, friendship and poli... READ MORE
Synopsis
Welcome to Scion. No safer place. The year is 2059. For two centuries, the Republic of Scion has led an oppressive campaign against unnaturalness in Europe. In London, Paige Mahoney holds a high rank in the criminal underworld.
The right hand of the ruthless White Binder, Paige is a dreamwalker, a rare and formidable kind of clairvoyant. Under Scion law, she commits treason simply by breathing.
When Paige is arrested for murder, she meets the mysterious founders of Scion, who have designs on her uncommon abilities. If she is to survive and escape, Paige must use every skill at her disposal – and put her trust in someone who ought to be her enemy.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- ISBN: 9781526664754
- Number of pages: 624
- Dimensions: 196 x 126 x 42 mm
- Weight: 428g
- Languages: English
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Any book set in a fictional future will have the challenge of how to include a reader into this new world. Sadly, I'm not entirely sure The Bone Season suc... READ MORE
Good, but potential to be brilliant...
This one has been in my to read pile since October 2014, so I really had to bite the bullet and get it read. I was fairly sure I was going to like it as t... READ MORE
Page turner for the teen market
Whilst I found this to be a hugely enjoyable story, it is most definitey aimed at the teen market. It is very much an action novel with a likeable heroine ... READ MORE
Solid but flawed fantasy with potential for more
3.5 stars. I went into this thinking it was YA and have since discovered it’s actually classed as adult fantasy. I think in reality it’s probably a good cr... READ MORE
Addicting and Brilliant
I first read The Bone Season over three years ago. It was sophomore year of high school, I had my Chemistry and Physics finals the next day, and I made the... READ MORE
This is gunna be a good series
I know I'm a bit late to the party on this one, but it somehow ended up at the bottom of a large tbr pile.
This was a really good read. I liked the idea... READ MORE
Hooked on a book is beyond the joke.
I love all magical, weird, out there and dam right weird to a degree. However this book tip toes in the unbelievable but believable in 50 to 60byears tim... READ MORE
Bone Season
It's a bit of a slow-starter, but once you're in it, you have to keep on reading. It reminds me a lot of Trudi Canavan's Magician's Guild. It will be a 7 b... READ MORE
Original, flowing, compelling
Excellent book. Really enjoyable original story with compelling characters and narrative. The writing flows so well, much like Shannon’s other works. Just ... READ MORE
A fantastic dystopia
Impossible to put the book down once you read the first chapter.
Welcome to Scion, where unnaturals are sentenced to death. Unnaturals are people who ha... READ MORE
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