Bone Season: The Bone Season (Series #1) (Hardcover)

from AyleeArgh

3.5 Stars In short: The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon has a highly ambitious and imaginative concept, but the execution of the world building was not up to par. I am not one of those people who gets scared off from reading a book because of the immense buzz surrounding it. Quite the opposite: I...

from MHanover10

This is really different from anything I've ever read for a book set in the future. According to this story, things were different back in the 1800's and life as we know it is really different. The unnatural are outcasts and are feared. Paige is captured and taken to Shoel I in Oxford where The u...

from michellebarton

Paige is a gifted clairvoyant living in a future London where clairvoyants are hunted down and executed. Seeking a way to protect herself she joined a criminal gang who become her teachers, co-conspirators, and de facto family. She is captured, surprised not to be killed but instead shipped off w...

from BBleil

This book is similar in nature to other young adult novels about dystopian societies; however, it does feature its own unique world and characters. There are essentially three types of humans: 1) regular, boring humans who think they are in control; 2) clairvoyant humans, the oppressed population...

from leeanne.pedersen

It's not often these days that I manage to concentrate enough to read a novel in one week, but The Bone Season was that compelling. The future setting immediately reminded me of The Hunger Games, but that's where the comparison ended. Set in England, clairvoyants of this future are criminals that...