The Bone Season is the first volume in a seven-part dystopian fantasy series by British author Samantha Shannon. Set in London in the year 2059, the novel follows Paige Mahoney, a nineteen-year-old clairvoyant known as a “dreamwalker,” who works ...
The Bone Season is the first volume in a seven-part dystopian fantasy series by British author Samantha Shannon. Set in London in the year 2059, the novel follows Paige Mahoney, a nineteen-year-old clairvoyant known as a “dreamwalker,” who works for an underground criminal syndicate.
In this future, clairvoyance is outlawed, and Paige’s very existence is considered treason. After being captured, she is taken to a hidden city—Oxford, long erased from maps—where she becomes the prisoner of a mysterious race called the Rephaim.
Themes include:
Surveillance and authoritarian control
Spiritual power and identity
Resistance, captivity, and transformation
The blurred line between human and otherworldly forces
The novel blends urban fantasy, dystopian politics, and psychic warfare, earning comparisons to Harry Potter and The Hunger Games, though its tone is darker and more philosophical2.
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