“He must have been examining me for a long time. It was easy to predict from the first mention of Warden that he would be the romantic lead in the story. Though I wouldn’t categorize this book as a romance, it does fall into one of their most famous clichés.

We also get to know her new allies in Sheol I and see how her relationship with Warden changes and grows. We get Paige’s background story through a series of memories/dreams, which include her fellow gang members, as well as some family. Once Paige got to Sheol I, I felt the character development was well written. While both references are great, I still feel like there could have been some more in depth description in the opening chapters when so many foreign terms were thrown out at one time it was almost impossible to keep them straight. Once I was done, I discovered there was a glossary of terms at the end of the book that would have been helpful while I was reading it. There is a chart in the front of the book naming all the groups of clairvoyants, but it got pretty old pretty fast to have to keep looking back (also my Nook did not let me enlarge it, so it was hard to read, but that might just be the formatting on my edition of Nook). Their relationship grows from Keeper/Slave to a partnership, both working towards their respective freedom. Paige is taken in by the Blood-Consort (fiancé to the queenly “Blood-Sovereign”), Warden. The humans are given Rephaim keepers and there are different social classes they can ascend to, but for most it’s basically a concentration camp. They work with the human government, Scion, to capture clairvoyants and keep them in Sheol I and away from the normal people (“amaurotics”). She’s taken to a place called Sheol I, run by the Rephaim, who are beings from the aether (the spirit world), clairvoyants, and not human.

Her escape doesn’t last long, as she is captured that very night. On her way home to visit her father, on a break from her work with a clairvoyant crime gang called The Seven Seals, she accidentally kills two government workers when they tried to capture her. Paige Mahoney is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant that can sense/enter other people’s dreamscapes (mind/spirit) in a world where clairvoyants are deemed “unnatural” criminals.

I found a lot of this to be confusing, but once I decided to stop paying so much attention to the details and focus on the story of Paige Mahoney, I really began to enjoy the story. There are several different types of clairvoyants that we meet throughout the book, but they are often mentioned without being well explained and they were hard to keep straight. It’s about clairvoyants and ghosts and other such creatures. When I first started reading The Bone Season I thought it would be a little too sci-fi for me.

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