the first in a thoughtful fantasy series by a brilliant young writer.' -S tarred review, Booklist ' dazzlingly brainy, witty, and bewitching tale of outrageous courage, heroic compassion, transcendent love, and the quest for freedom. It's energetic, imaginative, and engrossing.

It's the sort of novel you inhale in two or three days.' - Salon Shannon has a faultless instinct for the prerogatives of storytelling, for the engine that makes an adventure novel go. daring its readers to keep up even as it sinks in its hooks with crackerjack action deftly-accentuated conflict. but her most sublime otherworldly creation is the complex, ever evolving, scrappy yet touching Paige Mahoney.' - NPR.org Shannon has remarkable talent for world-building. 'Intelligent, inventive, dark, and engrossing. The future Shannon presents is frightening and well-imagined, and her complex hierarchy is fascinating.' - Washington Post ' The Bone Season has got a lot going for it, particularly its clipped pace and exciting story line. ' invokes both the political tyranny of George Orwell and the bucolic mythmaking of J.R.R. There's great imagination at work here.' - People Rowling's now-grown readers are the natural audience for this complex fantasy. a heroine every bit as gutsy as Katniss Everdeen.

Samantha Shannon has created a bold new reality in this riveting debut. It also introduces an extraordinary young writer, with huge ambition and a teeming imagination. 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. But if she wants to regain her freedom, Paige will have to learn something of his mind and his own mysterious motives. Paige is assigned to a Rephaite keeper, Warden, who will be in charge of her care and training. These creatures, the Rephaim, value the voyants highly-as soldiers in their army. The voyant prison is a separate city, controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. 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.īut when Paige is captured and arrested, she encounters a power more sinister even than Scion. Paige Mahoney, though, is a clairvoyant-and a criminal just for existing.

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. From the author of The Priory of the Orange Tree, 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.

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