Name: Saison d'os
Rating: 4.03125 (272 reviews)
ISBN: 9782378760915

Samantha Shannon

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Saison d'os

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.

The Bone Season

Michael Cowell

I really wanted to like this book but nothing about it ever seemed to click for me.

This is my second adult fantasy novel of this year and god is it a different gravy. It's absolutley fantastic. I absolutely ADORE Paige. As a clairvoyant dreamwalker, she's one badass female MC. And even thought it took her a little convincing from both herself and Warden (who by the way I am in utter LOVE with), she finally realises her true potential. I find that not one character in this book is written on a shallow surface level way. It's so amazing to see abook like that, where every character is valued and deepend to at least a small extent, because it makes the book so much better. I absolutely despise Narisha, and for me to be able to hate a character so deeply just shows how much this book can force emotions. I love the sci-fi feeling to this book, especially with the idea of it being set in the past. I will admit that some parts of this book were confusing, but by the end, everything was clarified and I love that I wasn't just left by myself to not understand. I also want to tell everyone how I would do absolutely anything for Warden so when I tell you certain things in this book made me bawllll. I think the plot of this book is so addictive, it makes me crave to want to know what happens, and I'm so surprised that all the content of this book fit into a mere 450 pages, it really shocks me because I'd expect it to need more pages. It's so hard to put into words how much this book made me happy, like I did not expect it to be such amazing quality, I feel like it has the potential to be my favourite book of the year because just wow. It's complicated but comprehensible, the magic system is astonishing, the word language is stunning, the characters are exciting and there's not one bad thing about this book. So definatly give it a try.

Safs 🧸

Khoi K

alexandra

this book is very unexpectedly intense, complex, and daaaaark. (okay maybe not that dark, just a tad bit creepy)

the beginning starts slow. we're immediately thrown into this wild fantasy world (there are TWO MAPS and a glossary!!) (side note: it's good to refer back to the glossary when you're confused because i didn't know there was a glossary) with no warning. samantha shannon gives small explanations in between sentences (yay for no info dumps!), but we're mostly left to fend for ourselves. because of this, you have to be very careful and precise with your reading or you'll end up reaaaally confused. i took my time to get into the book and i still ended up confused at times – who is this character again? wait, what does this power do?

once i got into the story, I GOT INTO THE STORY. the whole process was fairly gradual. i was slowly becoming invested in the world and characters; albeit not THAT emotional invested. i began to see them and ~be~ in their world, and i think this connection will continue to grow as the series progresses. the pacing also got faster towards the end/climax. it's like a drop of the roller coaster ride where the cart speeds up at the bottom.

i looooove the world and concept. everything about everything is so intricately detailed and interesting! the potential of this series is vast and i have semi-high hopes for the next book. (although i really don't know what to expect; i'm STILL kinda confused.) everything else was alright. the writing, relationships, characters, etc were great and i liked it, but i didn't necessarily LOVE it.

overall, i think this series has the potential to be fantastic, and this book is almost there. this monster-sized book seemed to only be a small introduction to the depth of this world and i'm excited to see where it goes! it's a bit hard to get into at first, but it gets better as the story progresses. super duper interesting!

Even a dreamer can start a revolution. An international sensation, now available in a fresh new design.

A Novel

Anja Hansen

I first heard about this series in 2017, but by then I had already retired from the dystopian and paranormal craze so I never read it.
Even now I only picked it up out of curiosity because I loved The Priory of the Orange Tree. But it seems I should learn to trust my instincts. I know for sure that younger me would have eaten this up, so it's quite a shame really that I didn't particularly care for it at this time. Although, I do think it was doomed from the start. There was nothing new or exciting to find in this story, everything felt like something I'd read before in other popular books. The romance aspect was evident from the start and I could predict it's route a mile away.

Kelsey Joëlle

liked it, the story was okay. not a big fan of dystopian cities and stuff. not really my cup of tea

Anna

Ce livre est une petite pépite. Je me suis lancée après l’avoir beaucoup vu et surtout parce que l’auteur était Samantha Shannon, auteure du Prieuré de l’oranger, qui est clairement un de mes livres favoris tant l’univers et les personnages sont incroyables de A à Z !

The Bone season ne surpasse pas le Prieuré dans mon cœur, mais l’écriture de Shannon est tellement immersive, détaillée et fluide que les mots glissent tout seuls. On plonge dans ce livre avec une grande facilité malgré la complexité de l’univers et le nombre importants de personnages (qui en plus n’ont pas toujours des noms faciles). Les personnages sont mystérieux puis extrêmement développé, au bon moment et de la bonne façon. Le passé des 2 protagonistes est introduit d’une façon fluide et non forcée ce qui permet d’en savoir plus tant en restant à l’affût du récit ! Le fait que ce soit de la science fiction/dystopie plutôt que de la fantaisie apporte du renouveau bienvenue.

J’attends la suite pour voir si un 5 étoiles est possible, pour moi ce tome c’est un 4.5, mais je pense que si on continue avec les autres tomes le 5 étoiles arrivera vite !!
Fun fact : Mon livre est défoncé parce qu’une bouteille d’eau a été renversée dessus donc je pleure. La tranche est parfaite et boum les pages font 15m d’épaisseur tellement il est gondolé.

Curtis Stewart

Very good book. Not normally my type of story, but it still managed to grip me and keep me interested. Definitely worth it :)

Kirsten Simkiss

** spoiler alert **
           I feel as though this book had a lot of potential and just never quite managed to utilize it. The concept of the world is great. The dystopian society is sufficiently messed up. The secrets have secrets and even the answers you get to the many questions hint at more questions.

If you liked the mystery of The Maze Runner, you will probably like this. I felt regularly that it had the same vibe and some of the characteristics as The Maze Runner did. To be honest, I didn’t particularly like it in this book half as much.

A lot of this book is the consistent informational dumping and the consistent hammering home of how dystopian their dystopian society really is. It’s constant. If they just summarized even a quarter of the info dumps, the book would probably be fifty pages shorter and the plot wouldn’t suffer a bit.

I also didn’t particularly like the main protagonist. It’s great that she learned to use her gift and grew a backbone as the story progressed rather than passing from one master to the next, but I honestly didn’t ever feel like she was a person I could really meet on the streets of London. There was nothing happy in her life ever in the story. She was a walking cloud of negative energy and she just wasn’t that fun to read about.

The minor characters were somewhat difficult to remember, with the exception of Liss and Seb, the only two characters who even seemed to have an ounce of humanity. And, of course, for that reason they had to be killed. What better to do to our protagonist who has never felt happiness in her life than to kill the few people who were nice to her inside Sheol I?

The romance also came out of nowhere. The author hinted heavily at Paige’s feelings for Nick, which was fine. I saw her feelings there coming. But for Warden? Seriously? The guy was creepy as hell, even with him teaming up with her. Stockholm syndrome much? The guy had no personality at all. He basically existed as the blank slate that his dreams consisted of. He didn’t seem like he was capable of romance. I just didn’t buy their fling.

All in all, this is definitely meant for an adult audience, but I could see high schoolers enjoying this. Still, I’ve read better dystopian novels.

jess

so the bone season was decent enough. very interesting, but personally i thought that it was a bit confusing, even with all the charts and maps at the beginning. i think this can either fall under young adult as well (and it didn't have a romance take up all the plot, which was GREAT). 

the thing about this is that it didn't suck me in. i'll probably be reading the next book, though. the pacing was too slow for the type of book it was. the publisher seems very sure that this is a good series though. 

another thing that was odd to me was the anachronism. it was cool, but it didn't ... really make sense? victorian clothing and slang with computers and sci-fi sounding names. yeah.

Ben Bastow

Sonja H

Eine ziemlich gruselige und verstörende Geschichte, manchmal musste ich mich überwinden, um weiterzulesen.
Allerdings fand ich es schwierig, in dieser seltsamen Welt anzukommen, es gibt im ersten Band zu wenig Hintergrundinformationen zu den Wesen und ihrer Umwelt.
Ich bin mir noch nicht sicher, ob ich Band 2 lesen werde.

EVEN A DREAMER CAN START A REVOLUTIONNineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney works in the criminal underworld of Scion London. 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.The New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller also includes an exclusive excerpt of the sequel, The Mime Order.

Vilde

4.5

I loved it, but there is also something about it that is making me insanely confused.

For the past two hundred years the Scion government has led an oppressive campaign against unnaturalness in London. Clairvoyance in all its forms has been decreed a criminal offence, and those who practise it viciously punished. Forced underground, a clairvoyant underworld has developed, combating persecution and evading capture. Paige Mahoney, a powerful dreamwalker operating in the Seven Dials district of London, lives a double life, using her unnaturalness illegally while hiding her gift from her father, who works high up in the Scion regime -

Amie ONeill

I really loved this book. I think it may be one of the best starts to a series I have ever read.

Paige was a delightful main character. She was strong while also having her weaknesses. The rest of the characters were all amazing and added what they needed to to the story. I felt that none were unnecessary.

The story had me hooked from page 1 and if it wasn't for life I would've finished this in a day.

The writing was superb and I can't point out a single fault. Every word was written perfectly.

I LOVE THIS BOOK, and I will 100% be reading be reading the rest of the series.

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