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The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon

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taylormsinclair's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

alexiab's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

HOOOOOOLY SWEET MOTHER MARY AND JOSEPH

I can’t believe I haven’t read this sooner?! I wish I had read the original version so I could compare the improvements made in this revised version. I’m so blown away by how quickly I fell in love and I’ll never know peace again. PHEW. DANG.

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

bookishrn93's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

5.0

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Taking a break to read more TJ Klune

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4.0

Spoiler warning! Read the book first!
I love Samantha Shannon’s ability to write characters with compelling motivations and stakes, she has an amazing handle of the human experience and writes with so much heart that I never regret reading something of hers.
This book was just as fun to read for me as priory, up until her relationship with Warden. I know it’s probably just something I don’t understand and I’m going to keep reading the series in hopes it makes sense later, but it was the only thing I didn’t like.
Thanks for another good book!

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4.0

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This book as something really different for me and I really enjoyed it. But it is also super hard to write a review without spoiling too much about this book.
One thing I have to say it is a very complex world and can be overwhelming and confusing in the beginning. But once you get the hang of it, the rest of the book is awesome. The book has a glossary at the end, I suggest you bookmark it, I used it a few times throughout the book. The same goes to the chart in the beginning of the book about the different orders of clairvoyants. Like I said it can be a bit confusing since the world is so complex and different but it is easy to get the hang of it.
The beginning, kind of reminded me of Six of Crows, with the whole gang thing and the order of it as well as the word. Six of Crows was a book I loved so I was more than fine with that. It was also pretty dark, and cruel to watch Paige go through all of what she went through.
I really liked Paige, while she can seem a bit cold at times you can tell that there is a lot more going on with her and I cannot wait to find out more about her and her past. She is quite the bada$$ and stands up for herself but also for others that can’t do it for themselves. She never gives and just keeps on fighting. I think we can see a funny side of her as well but that might be later on in the books she has not much to laugh about in this book.
There are some great side characters, that I liked and can see becoming main ones but I don’t want to much to giveaway. The same goes for her group of people, but we don’t know that much about them yet. All I know is that I love Nick and really want to punch Jaxon.
The Rephaim, we don’t know much about them except that they are the baddies, but it is also hinted at that there is more to it fairly early on. I cannot wait to learn more about them and why they are there and so much more.
They kind of reminded me of vampires in a way. But we shall see.
There are so many thing I can’t wait to learn more about like the cords, silver and gold, more about the history of Rephaim, Dreamwalkers and so on. But with 7 planned books all together I think we will get to all of it.
The book really leaves you with more question at the end but in a good way. I’m very much looking forward to book two and three that I already have on hand.
I rate this book 4★, I would have rated it 5★ but the large world building slows the books down a bit. I’m hoping that now that we know the world book two will be a lot smoother.
So my rating will be 4★

Some of my favorite Quotes

“Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.”
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“No, Paige. I am trying to help you.”
“Go to hell.”
“I already exist on a level of hell.”
“Exist on one that isn't near mine.”
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“They'd branded me like some kind of animal. Lower than an animal. A number.”
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“Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.”
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