I turned it and stepped quietly onto the flagstones. I should know, I’ve tried it many times, and for the most part, I’m still trying. I appreciate how much work authors put into doing it, and let me tell you right now, it’s a general bitch to do. I love it when magical systems are charted out. (Oh boy, did I just call a part of the plot? I’m letting y’all know that I totally did.)īut seriously, you guys.
I mean, it makes absolute sense to be able to tap into the aether through the process of sleeping and dreaming, right? If there’s a dreamwalker, there has to be a dreamgiver. Look at all those fancy names for divining! There were so many “mancies” that I was slightly surprised “somnomancer” wasn’t on the list. The first thing I saw when I opened the book was a two-page categorization of voyants. THAT SAID, I saw this on one of my TBTBSantee’s wishlists, and decided if I was going to read at least one book that I’d send to my TBTBSantee, it was going to be The Bone Season. So as an Anglophile, I was pretty Anglo-tired. Not to mention the television shows I’ve been following that’s based in the UK. At the time, I’d already read the first book of Shades of London, The Friday Society, several of the Sherlock Holmes stories, and The Golden Compass, which practically was a book based in Oxford. Not that this would have stopped me from reading anything (critics should never really be the deciding matter if the book itself interests you), but it certainly gave me pause, because hype-fail, you guys.ī) I wasn’t really feeling like reading another UK-based book. I’d heard about this book from so many sources, yet when I started browsing the reviews, there were some pretty scathing reviews that practically tore the material apart. But if Paige wants to regain her freedom she must allow herself to be nurtured in this prison where she is meant to die.įirst let me tell you about how I had avoided this book for a good few years because reasons.Ī) It was overhyped. Paige is assigned to Warden, a Rephaite with mysterious motives.
Attacked, drugged and kidnapped, Paige is transported to Oxford – a city kept secret for two hundred years, controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. It is raining the day her life changes for ever. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant and, in the world of Scion, she commits treason simply by breathing. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people’s minds. 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. DON’T STOP THE STORY NOW.” Damn this series. I laughed and rolled my eyes and everything, but that didn’t seem to stop me from going “WAIT NO.
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