2022/61: The Bone Season -- Samantha Shannon

2022/61: The Bone Season -- Samantha Shannon

'...Some of us don’t want Styrofoam, Paige. Some of us want silver and satin and sordid streets and spirits...' [loc. 6640]

The novel opens in London in 2056, over a hundred years since Scion took control in response to 'an epidemic of clairvoyance'. Paige Mahoney lives with her father and works in an oxygen bar (caffeine and alcohol being prohibited substances) in what initially feels like a steampunk setting. ( Read more... )