![]() ![]() Samantha Shannon graduated from Oxford University this summer. "Voyants" like Paige are outlawed: imprisoned, executed, or bound to serve for thirty years on a police force, tracking their own before being euthanized. Shannon sets Paige down in the ultra-modern city of Scion London, an alternative to the city we know, in 2059. There's a distinct Margaret Atwood-style wash to Shannon's dystopian universe, and echoes of Anthony Burgess's Clockwork Orange in the colorful lingo. Paige Mahoney, the novel's street-smart clairvoyant narrator, is more akin to the post-apocalyptic girl gladiator in Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games than to Harry Potter. It's terrific-intelligent, inventive, dark, and engrossing enough to keep me up late to finish. I've learned to scrub my mind of hype and leave it to the text. It's tricky when a book arrives with such preliminary brouhaha. She's got a film deal with the new London studio set up by Andy Serkis of Lord of the Rings fame, and she's been courting booksellers, book reviewers, and fantasy fans for more than a year. She's 21, a fresh graduate of Oxford, where she was a student when she wrote The Bone Season, the first in a projected seven-novel urban fantasy series. Samantha Shannon is being touted as the new J. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Bone Season Author Samantha Shannon ![]()
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