Title: The bone season
Author: Samantha Shannon
Series/Standalone: #1 in a series
Format: Hardcover
Rating: ★★★★★
Rating: ★★★★★
Goodreads summary:
The year is 2059. 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 people's minds. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant and, in the world of Scion, she commits treason simply by breathing.
It is raining the day her life changes for ever. Attacked, drugged and kidnapped, Paige is transported to Oxford – a city kept secret for two hundred years, controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. 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 is raining the day her life changes for ever. Attacked, drugged and kidnapped, Paige is transported to Oxford – a city kept secret for two hundred years, controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. 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.
Review:
I put off reading this book for so long due to hearing that it was extremely hard to get into and understand and I just never felt in the mood to read a book that I would be confused the whole way through. This however was not the case for me at all when I did finally decide to read it.
The world is very complex in this book but after you get past the explanations and world building you really start to get into the story.I found myself hooked for the beginning and managed to read over 300 pages of the book in one day. I was dying to know what was going to happen and how things would turn out.
There were so many twists and turns throughout that kept you on your toes and never left me feeling bored or uninterested which is what I love in book.
Now onto the characters. Paige was an amazingly badass main character and, although she got beat up in almost every chapter due to her stubbornness, I absolutely loved her.
I loved getting her memories and her back story slowly throughout the novel and then at the end when it all ties together so beautifully. I also don't have the words to describe how much I loved Warden even though we didn't see much of him, I loved the development of his relationship with Paige.
I liked the underlying romance in the book and the fact that it didn't take over the book. I cannot wait to see more from Paige in the next books and will be picking up the sequel very soon.
