The Bone Season has the kids vs dystopia kick of The Hunger Games, but while it's better written. It's a world of impressive scope, accompanied by Tolkienesque appendices, glossaries, maps and all The Bone Season plots out a criminal underworld in a future where clairvoyancy exists part fantasy, part dystopia, all intrigue. The Bone Season is more like the novel that JK Rowling and William Gibson never teamed up to writeĪ Hunger Games vibe and a few Shades of Grey TolkeinĪ rapid-fire wonder of a book, where clairvoyants and humans battle it out against scary monsters and super-creeps. The book invokes both the political tyranny of George Orwell and the bucolic mythmaking of J.R.R. Justina Robson, author of the Quantum Gravity series She's hit the ground runningĪ richly dramatic and unadulterated pleasure, filled with horrors, wonders and charm Samantha Shannon has a hugely inventive talent and an imagination with seven league boots. 1 New York Times bestselling co-author of the Beautiful. Leading the charge is Samantha ShannonĪ dark and exquisitely rendered fantasy unlike anything out there. A new breed of women authors are claiming fantasy for their own.
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