The Bone Season (The Bone Season, #1)

Samantha Shannon
Bloomsbury USA • 2013

The year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon Hall. Her job: to scout for information by ...breaking into people’s minds. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant and, in the world of Scion, she commits treason simply by breathing.It is raining the day her life changes for ever. Attacked, drugged and kidnapped, Paige is transported to Oxford – a city kept secret for two hundred years, controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. Paige is assigned to Warden, a Rephaite with mysterious motives. He is her master. Her trainer. Her natural enemy. But if Paige wants to regain her freedom she must allow herself to be nurtured in this prison where she is meant to die.The Bone Season introduces a compelling heroine and also introduces an extraordinary young writer, with huge ambition and a teeming imagination. Samantha Shannon has created a bold new reality in this riveting debut.
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Ak práve rozmýšľate, čo čítať ďalej a máte chuť na záplavu citov a rozorvané srdce perfektné dystopické urban fantasy - nemusíte rozmýšľať ďalej. Zber kostí je prvotinou mladučkej autorky Samanthy Shannon, no s prehľadom sa vyrovná aj dielam omnoho skúsenejších autorov.  Hoci žánrovo je túto knihu trošku zložitejšie zaradiť - nesie v sebe prvky scifi, fantasy, dystopie, ale aj[...]

Host Kostičas paranormal recenze Samantha Shannon The Bone Season young adult

(čteno v originále, překlad vydán nakladatelstvím Host v roce 2014) You can also read my mini-review in English on Goodreads (soon)    Prvotina mladičké britské autorky, Samanthy Shannon, která nese název The Bone Season (Kostičas) a je prvním dílem stejnojmenné série pro dospívající, je směsicí paranormální dystopie a alternativní budoucnosti. Dostala jsem se k ní ve spojitosti s[...]

The year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon Hall. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people’s minds. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant and, in the world of Scion, she commits treason simply by breathing.

It is raining the day her life changes for ever. Attacked, drugged and kidnapped, Paige is transported to Oxford – a city kept secret for two hundred years, controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. Paige is assigned to Warden, a Rephaite with mysterious motives. He is her master. Her trainer. Her natural enemy. But if Paige wants to regain her freedom she must allow herself to be nurtured in this prison where she is meant to die.

The Bone Season introduces a compelling heroine and also introduces an extraordinary young writer, with huge ambition and a teeming imagination. Samantha Shannon has created a bold new reality in this riveting debut.