The Bone Season: Author's Preferred Text
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The internationally bestselling debut fantasy novel by Samantha Shannon, New York Times bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree and A Day of Fallen Night. Welcome to Scion. No safer place. The year is 2059. For two centuries, the Republic of Scion has led an oppressive campaign against unnaturalness in Europe. In London, Paige Mahoney holds a high rank in the criminal underworld. The right hand of the ruthless White Binder, Paige is a dreamwalker, a rare and formidable kind of clairvoyant. Under Scion law, she commits treason simply by breathing. When Paige is arrested for murder, she meets the mysterious founders of Scion, who have designs on her uncommon abilities. If she is to survive and escape, Paige must use every skill at her disposal-and put her trust in someone who ought to be her enemy. Includes a Bonus Prequel Novella: THE PALE DREAMER
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It was so interesting to reread this but with Shannon's edits and changes from the original. I first read the original when it published over a decade ago and fell in love with the characters and the world - I have been waiting YEARS for the Dark Mirror.
I was apprehensive of Shannon reworking so much of what I loved, even though I could recognise that her writing had grown and strengthened since her debut. The anxiety was in vain though as the rewriting has not made this feel like a different book, but rather added needed support to the beginning of Warden and Paige's relationship, and - in my opinion - tackled Paige's trauma and her responses to it in a much more nuanced way.
