The Bone Season by: Samantha Shannon

Title:  The Bone Season
Author:  Samantha Shannon
Genre:  Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Adult
Age:  15+
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

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.

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.  (Taken from the Goodreads website)

Reaction:

Can I marry a book?  Because if I could, I would marry this one in a heartbeat.  Samantha Shannon do you give me permission to court your book?  Well, anyways, before this gets anymore awkward I will move onto the actual topic at hand...this book.  This book was awesome on ten-billion different levels.  It was the book of my dreams.  This book is good for any type of person: men, women, and pretty much any age above fifteen.

Characters:

Paige Mahoney:
A strong, kick butt woman who protects herself.  Paige doesn't need a man to protect her, she does that herself.  I really feel like I could connect with Paige.  She felt very real and her dialogue didn't ever feel forced.  Plus as an added bonus, Paige's power is the coolest ever!  I want to be able to dreamwalk!  I can't wait to see what Paige brings us in the next books.

Warden:
The opposite of every male stereotype in literature now a days.  Sure, he's attractive and brooding, but even Warden's different in these ways.  Warden and Paige don't immediately feel a connection.  It takes them nearly the entire book to trust each other.  He is her captor, her trainer, her enemy, but she gives him a chance.  I pretty much thought Warden was the best character in the book and highly anticipated him in every chapter of the book.

Overall:

I will not ever regret reading this book.  I actually thought about reading this book for a couple of months before actually picking it up, but when I did my expectations were blown out of the water.  This book is funny, serious, romantic, fantastical, and cool all at the same time.  My tiny mind can't even comprehend how one mind came up with this.  WARNING:  Warning about this book:  It takes quite a bit of time to comprehend.  If your looking for a quick read, this is not the book for you.  This book contains intense world building and in depth world vocabulary and levels of clairvoyance that you have to memorize, but it's totally worth it!

Tired -Terantum