If you’re into Dystopian, aliens, spirits, and levelled societies, I would recommend you to read The Bone Season.The Sunday Times bestseller, from the bestselling author of The Bone Season and The Priory of the Orange Tree Paige Mahoney has eluded death again. (Goodreads provides a good synopsis of The Bone Season, which can be found – here.) In fact, the synopsis provided information from the first couple of chapters only, which isn’t what the story is about at all, but rather, a sort of background on the main character.
Oh, and I just wanted to point out that the synopsis provided in the back cover of the copy I have, which is the UK Paperback version, was very incomplete. YAY, more books on my TBR because I absolutely need it to pile up higher! *1/2 sarcasm* I actually didn’t know it was part of a series when I bought it. I heard that the second book, The Mime Order, is WAY better, so I’m excited for that. The Bone Season was definitely heavy and more than I thought it would be. The ending was a little too abrupt for me, but it was fine.
My advise is to have patience and keep reading because you’ll get what’s going on after a while and it gets better. Not only did the excessive information confuse me, but the world building and terminology did so as well. There was a lot of ‘info dumping’, which confused me quite a few times, and the pacing was slow at some points, but the interesting and odd plot kept me going. The characters and their abilities were really interesting, although I’m not sure I understood everything. However, I didn’t find the plot to be extremely original, since it was very similar to other stories such as The Hunger Games and Divergent. The Bone Season falls under the Dystopian Fantasy and Sci-Fi category, which I enjoyed. (Check out my BBW Book Fair haul – here!) I liked it and definitely did not regret buying and reading it, especially since I bought this at the BBW Book Fair for only ₱190/$3.66, so I just rated it a solid 4 stars. It honestly took me quite a while to think about what to rate this book, as well as collect and evaluate my thoughts on it.
Once you know something, you can’t get rid of it.
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