Paige is going about her normal, everyday business, when she finds herself on a train that is being searched for Clairvoyants. Later, she finds herself having to do things she doesn’t want to in order to survive the Bone Season, and this causes her deep inner conflict: does she do what she believes to be the right thing, or what she needs to do to save herself? Paige was so relatable in these moments, but also possessed a strength I would never have in her position (for all of my feisty talk, when the dark powers rise I will be hiding wherever the gin is). She is frequently concerned with doing the right thing she agonises over killing people and will question Jaxon if she thinks he is doing something wrong.

Jaxon only adores Paige for as long as she does what he wants her to do.įor someone so heavily tied into the criminal underworld, Paige has a really strong sense of morality. He claims to like Paige, even to love her in a familial way, but ultimately, she is a commodity to him: “He would kill me if I left his service”. Jaxon is a harsh leader, he does not suffer failure. She is relatively new to the gang compared to some, but she has earned her way into her position, and the (sometimes begrudging) respect of her colleagues in the process. She is Jaxon’s Mollisher, his second in command, his protegee. She is a Dreamwalker (The Pale Dreamer), who scouts for information by searching people’s minds (hello, yes, I would like this superpower, thank you). Paige is part of the Clairvoyant underclass: she works for Jaxon Hall (aka The White Binder), leader of the Seven Dials. Not outside of fantasy, and even that’s blacklisted.” “We are the minority the world does not accept. Scion’s Clairvoyants are a criminal underclass, hunted and executed by the government and hated by their fellow citizens: Safe, that is, so long as you aren’t a Clairvoyant. The Bone Season is the first in an epic seven book series telling the story of Paige Mahoney and her life in Scion, a place so sure of itself it broadcasts the message “ no safer place”. Let me be clear from the start of this review: there are no words I can write that will do this book justice.

The bone season by samantha shannon