Review: The Bone Season

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The Bone Season
By Samantha Shannon

 Source: e-book gift
Page count: 452
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction, 

 Goodreads Synopsis:

 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.

The Bone Season introduces a compelling heroine and 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.

 My review:
I really wanted to love this book. It is written by a British author, and someone had told me it had LGBT+ themes in (which were very vague - only one minor character was gay), but it turned out to be a major disappointment. It was really dull, so I was bored, and struggled to get through it. I’m actually surprised I got through the whole thing because I really didn't care about anything.
The pacing and info-dumping was my main problem. At the start, we were loaded with tonnes of ‘world-building’, which was overwhelming, and made me a bit confused. This carried on throughout the whole book - the pointless description and fancy slang made me wonder why I was actually reading this book.

 I really didn’t understand the romance. There was one pathetic kiss, which was pointless to the story. I would have much preferred if it was taken out because it added nothing to the story.

All of the characters were quite bland. None of them had unique personalities, so none of them were at all memorable. I don’t think I could name over 5 characters that were in the book because there were so many people who made no difference to the story.

Overall, I really didn’t enjoy this book. It was too long, and nothing really happened. I would have enjoyed it much more if the info-loading and world-building was done more gradually because that was probably the worst part.

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3 comments

  1. Rekha19 August 2015 at 17:14

    I actually enjoyed the first book, but I just cannot get through book two! I've tried it multiple times!

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    1. Dulcie @ Riot Grrrl Reads19 August 2015 at 19:01

      I'm glad you enjoyed it, but it's fair to say I didn't, haha! I've heard book two is worse than the first, so I really don't know how I would get through it. Thanks for the comment!

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    2. Dulcie @ Riot Grrrl Reads19 August 2015 at 19:01

      I'm glad you enjoyed it, but it's fair to say I didn't, haha! I've heard book two is worse than the first, so I really don't know how I would get through it. Thanks for the comment!

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