Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Waiting on Wednesday #20: The Bone Season


Waiting on Wednesday is a wonderful meme created by Jill from Breaking the Spine where we highlighted an upcoming release that we're eagerly anticipating.

The Bone Season (Bone Season #1)
by Samantha Shannon
Kindle Edition, 480 pages
Expected publication: August 20th 2013 
by Bloomsbury USA
Summary from Goodreads:
It is the year 2059. Several major world cities are under the control of a security force called Scion. Paige Mahoney works in the criminal underworld of Scion London, part of a secret cell known as the Seven Seals. The work she does is unusual: scouting for information by breaking into others’ minds. Paige is a dreamwalker, a rare kind of clairvoyant, and in this world, the voyants commit treason simply by breathing.

But when Paige is captured and arrested, she encounters a power more sinister even than Scion. The voyant prison is a separate city—Oxford, erased from the map two centuries ago and now controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. These creatures, the Rephaim, value the voyants highly—as soldiers in their army.

Paige is assigned to a Rephaite keeper, Warden, who will be in charge of her care and training. He is her master. Her natural enemy. But if she wants to regain her freedom, Paige will have to learn something of his mind and his own mysterious motives.

Babble:
For the uninitiated, Samantha Shannon is being touted as the next J.K. Rowling. That is a good enough reason for me to check this highly anticipated debut out but that cover is just too appalling for my taste. Let's just hope the publisher had enough sense to change the cover soon.

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