There is a lot to get to grips with in The Bone Season the cast of characters is vast and there is a lot of terminology that is used throughout (there is a glossary to accompany the story). Will I read the second book in the series, The Mime Order? Yes, I think I would. There is, however, no arguing with the fact that the author possesses a great imagination. I understand that as the first book set in this world enough information has to be offered to the reader so they can understand what is going on but it felt unnecessarily complicated. If the world-building information had been lighter and perhaps more subtly incorporated into the story, I think this book would have been fantastic. The characters really came into their own (I especially liked Nick, Liss and Julian), there was a lot of action, and the ending was good and worth the effort of working through the slower passages. What did I like about the second half? I’m not sure that the second half of book was any easier to read or any lighter on detail, but the storyline did pick up and that helped both the flow of the plot and its pace. At times I felt like I was wading through detail, description and definitions to get to the story. What didn’t I like about the first half? There was too much information about the world the story was set it, and that made it clunky to read and slow going. When reading the first half, I struggled to pick the book up, but, for the second half of the book I struggled to put it down. The truth is I didn’t like the first half but enjoyed the second, and that makes it quite hard to review. I really really wanted to like this book. Nothing’s worse than a story without an end. But if Paige wants to regain her freedom she must allow herself to be nurtured in this prison where she is meant to die. 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. The Bone Season is the first book in the series of the same name by Samantha Shannon.

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