the pale dreamer a bone season novella samantha shannon

Everything is spelled out by someone explaining who they are to someone else. Her attempts to get back to her life in London forms the core of the story. It’s a weird mix of the familiar (people talk on cell phones and eat Frosted Flakes), and the horror/sci-fi (ghosts are everywhere and telepaths, palmists, furies and all manner of extrasensory types form an underclass that society has come to fear and hate.) The heroine gets hauled off to a kind of interment camp for specials which is also the home base for the aliens. It’s set in the future but only a few decades into the future. I liked the concept of an alternate history that went off the rails from history as we know it a couple of hundred years ago when England handed itself into the hands of an alien race. But while I made it all the way through this first book, I don’t think I want to spend my time on any more. I was hoping this was the start of another great series I could lose myself in for a few weeks. 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. The New York Times best-selling 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.

Bloomsbury presents The Bone Season: A Novel by Samantha Shannon, read by Alana Kerr Collins.

The pale dreamer a bone season novella samantha shannon