Book Review: The Bone Season - Samantha Shannon
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 peoples mind. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant - and in her world, the world of Scion, she commits treason by simply 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 and controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race called the Rephaim. 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.
It has been 200 years since the Rephaim, Biologically immortal, humanoid inhabitants if the Netherworld, known to feed on the aura of clairvoyant humans,invaded Britain, and Paige finds herself prisoner in Oxford, and is the first human of which Arcturus, who is betrothed to the blood sovereign Nashira Sargas has become Warden. She is of special interest as she is one of the more rare clairvoyants, a dreamwalker. The more unfortunate ones are forced to live in squalid conditions, feed little, trained hard and are often beaten by their Warden as Rephaim see human as a breed much much lower than themselves. They are brought to Oxford and trained to protect the city from the Emim, enemies of the Rephaim, beasts who have a taste for human flesh. Those who are brought to Oxford which do not possess clairvoyant skills and cannot connect to the Aether are known as amaurotics and are treated as slaves of the Rephaim.
All Paige wants to do is escape and get back to her father, a worker for Scion, and back to her Syndicate in I-4. However to do this she has to decide whether she can trust her Warden, and whether it's better for her to work with him rather than against even though they are natural enemies.
There is so much more I want to write about this book, however I have to stop myself as you really do have to read it for yourself . I can't believe that author Samantha Shannon is my age, born in 1991, has graduated from Oxford University, and is a published author. The rights to turn The Bone Season to be turned into a film have already been sold, and this is the first book in a series of 7. Samantha Shannon has her own blog which you can visit here, and if you want to read more about The Bone Season as-well as where to buy your copy and updates on the film you can visit this website.
Let me know if you have read The Bone Season and what your thoughts where. Also let me know of any book you would recommend.
Thanks For Reading,
Sam x
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