2059: London is being monitored for people with psychic abilities. Paige Mahoney is one of the few Clairvoyants, but she is one of the rare ones. She’s a dreamwalker and she breaks into people’s minds.

I’ve read this book a few years ago. At that point it was released in German, but they stopped translating after the second book. That was my main reason to stop reading the series. But now, four books have been released in the series in English and I just wanted to pick it up again. I really enjoyed it the first time around and so I had to see if I’d still like it.

“The Bone Season” is about Paige Mahoney, a dreamwalker. She is a clairvoyant and can break into people’s minds. But it is forbidden for her to even exist. She works for a crime lord in the London Underworld, which is ruled by the clairvoyants. But somehow, she gets discovered by the Government and is imprisoned. They send her with others to Oxford, a place where clairvoyants live in slavery. They are being ruled over by the Rephaim, a powerful, otherworldly race. Paige gets assigned to a Rephaite, the Warden, the consort to the Queen of the Rephaite. He wants her to train her dreamwalking and get more powerful, since there are beings that want to destroy the world and like to eat people. The clairvoyants are the infantry, the first line of soldiers to die in this war nobody outside of Oxford knows exists. But Paige doesn’t want to die. She wants to get back to London, to her crew and the only boy she has ever loved. But could it be possible that Paige’s feelings are changing?

This was Samantha Shannon’s debut book, and I really liked it. Normally, I’m not into Sci-Fi, but this book did it for me. With the Rephaim, she creates a race that thinks of themselves as angels that are here to save the humans from their self-induced doom. There are some flashbacks, which are not my cup of tea, but later some parts about it were explained and it made so much sense. Now I’m ready for the sequel.