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The Bone Season (The Bone Season, #1)

Samantha Shannon

Why we're reading this: Samantha Shannon wrote this novel in her early twenties. It begins a planned seven-book series, with the …more
[close] Samantha Shannon wrote this novel in her early twenties. It begins a planned seven-book series, with the second installment being published this year.

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Jan 27, 2015 Nadine in NY Jones rated it it was ok

Shelves: fantasy-and-sci-fi, young-adult, aliens, dystopian-and-post-apocalyptic, cotton-candy, paranormal, genre-blender, alternate-planes-and-histories

Cotton candy, with a generous side of info dump. The basic story was predictable, but fun. However, that's overshadowed by the amount of exposition that the reader must slog through early on. Additionally, many things don't make sense, the passage of time is completely confused, there are too many extraneous characters that I couldn't keep track of, and the real meat of the plot - the actual planning of the rebellion - takes place off stage. On the whole, this book feels really sloppy.

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Mar 05, 2021 Loretta rated it liked it

Shelves: sci-fi-and-fantasy, audiobooks

This sometimes happens to me with the first book of a series - something about it didn't quite land for me, but I liked the character's voice (and the narrator's), and the world building was done in a compelling way for me. So even though I finished it with a sort of "yeah, it was fine", I've already acquired the next book. Part of this is knowing what Shannon is capable of, having really enjoyed Priory of the Orange Tree; and thinking that the series might be warming up to really good things. S ...more

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