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Literary Fiction · 2024 · PG-13

The Bone Season

by Samantha Shannon

London, 2059. Clairvoyance is criminal. And the ones who police it are not human.

The internationally bestselling debut fantasy novel by Samantha Shannon, New York Times bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree and A Day of Fallen Night. Welcome to Scion. No safer place. The year is 2059. For two centuries, the Republic of Scion has led an oppressive campaign against unnaturalness in Europe. In London, Paige Mahoney holds a high rank in the criminal underworld. The right hand of the ruthless White Binder, Paige is a dreamwalker, a rare and formidable kind of clairvoyant. Under Scion law, she commits treason simply by breathing. When Paige is arrested for murder,

For14+GenreLiterary FictionLength350 pagesRead time~9.7 hoursCommunity ratings0

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Violence

Some

Moderate

Language

Barely any

Mild

Sexual Content

Barely any

Mild romance

Substance Use

None

None

Emotional Intensity

Some

Moderate

What this book is about

Paige Mahoney is a dreamwalker — an illegal clairvoyant in a future London controlled by Scion. She's captured and taken to Oxford, where an alien species called the Rephaim rules over human clairvoyants. A dense, world-built adult fantasy with slavery and rebellion at its center.

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Captivity and coercion are central

Dense world-building may be slow for some readers

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