The Bone Season: A Novel

Samantha Shannon

Bloomsbury Publishing USA, Aug 20, 2013 - Fiction - 466 pages

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.

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User Review  - Bodagirl - LibraryThing

While the ideas behind this clairvoyant-laden world are intriguing, the execution of describing the ins and outs leaves a lot to be desired. Shannon vacillates between defining her world's jargon and ...

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User Review  - bonniemarjorie - LibraryThing

Hype: to promote or publicize extravagantly Bone Season is the very definition of hype. The Marketing team was working overtime to promote the first installment in a proposed seven-book series. Not ...

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 20
• Section 3: 33
• Section 4: 48
• Section 5: 60
• Section 6: 80
• Section 7: 97
• Section 8: 108
• Section 9: 114
• Section 10: 129
• Section 11: 154
• Section 12: 168
• Section 13: 180
• Section 14: 192
• Section 15: 206
• Section 16: 220
• Section 17: 231
• Section 18: 246
• Section 19: 265
• Section 20: 278
• Section 21: 291
• Section 22: 315
• Section 23: 327
• Section 24: 342
• Section 25: 354
• Section 26: 371
• Section 27: 388
• Section 28: 404
• Section 29: 430
• Section 30: 455
• Section 31: 465

About the author

Samantha Shannon is the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of The Bone Season series. Her work has been translated into twenty-six languages. She lives in London.

samanthashannon.co.uk / @say_shannon

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Bone Season: A Novel; Bone season bk. 1; Book 1 of Bone season novel, Samantha Shannon; Book 1 of The Bone Season, Samantha Shannon
• Author: Samantha Shannon
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2013
• ISBN: 1620401398, 9781620401392
• Length: 466 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fantasy / General; Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic