Présentation de l'éditeur
Paige Mahoney has escaped the brutal prison camp of Sheol I, but her problems have only just begun: many of the survivors are missing and she is the most wanted person in London…
As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on the dreamwalker, the mime-lords and mime-queens of the city’s gangs are invited to a rare meeting of the Unnatural Assembly. Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare to take centre stage, but there are bitter fault lines running through the clairvoyant community. Then the Rephaim begin crawling out from the shadows. Paige must keep moving, from Seven Dials to Grub Street to the secret catacombs of Camden, until the fate of the underworld can be decided.
Revue de presse
Fabulous, epic fantasy thriller (
The Times)
Dark, embattled, highly wrought fantasy ... there is no doubt that Shannon is the real thing (
Observer)
Slick and vivid ... Gives the fantasy genre a refreshing lease of life.
The Bone Season is enough to transport even hardened sceptics of the fantasy genre into its imaginative realm (
Metro)
A clever and courageous character, reminiscent of Katniss Everdeen from
The Hunger Games … gripped me to the marrow (
Daily Telegraph)
A rapid-fire wonder of a book (
Marie Claire)
Paige escapes a brutal prison camp to face darkness and danger as the fate of the underworld unfolds (
Stylist)
Language as rich as a figgy pudding, the best terminology in the genre and gripping, edge-of-the-seat plotting to boot … Along with the clever and strong-willed Paige, a deliciously reconfigured London … Is the star of this show. Penny dreadful stories clash with electronic tablets. Victorian-style street gangs use their fabulous supernatural powers to call on poltergeists for their skulduggery (
Daily Mail)
Un mot de l'auteur
Samantha Shannon was born in West London in 1991. She started writing at the age of fifteen and studied English language and literature at St. Annes College, Oxford. The Bone Season, the first novel in her seven-book series, was a TODAY Book Club pick and was published in twenty-one countries.
Quatrième de couverture
In the internationally bestselling The Bone Season, Paige Mahoney escaped the brutal prison camp of Sheol I, but her problems have only just begun: many of the survivors are missing and she is the most wanted person in London...
As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on the dreamwalker, the mime-lords and mime-queens of the city's gangs are invited to a rare meeting of the Unnatural Assembly. Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare to take centre stage, but there are bitter fault lines running through the clairvoyant community and dark secrets around every corner.
Then the Rephaim begin crawling out from the shadows. But where is Warden? Paige must keep moving, from Seven Dials to Grub Street to the secret catacombs of Camden, until the fate of the underworld can be decided.
Biographie de l'auteur
Samantha Shannon was born in west London in 1991. She started writing at the age of fifteen. Between 2010 and 2013 she studied English Language and Literature at St Anne’s College, Oxford. In 2013 she published The Bone Season, the first in a seven book series. The Bone Season was a New York Times, a Sunday Times and an Asian Age bestseller, was picked as a Book of the Year by the Daily Mail, Stylist and Huffington Post and was named one of Amazon’s 2013 Best Books of the Year. It has been translated into twenty-eight languages and the film rights have been acquired by The Imaginarium Studios and 20th Century Fox. The Mime Order is her second novel.
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