She is a rarity, a prize in Jaxon’s possession, and although Paige knows deep down that Jaxon would disown her without her gift, she cant help but feel beholden to him for giving her a safe place, somewhere she belongs, somewhere she feels wanted. Having to spend her life hiding what she is from her family has put a toll on her, and the only place she feels safe and understood is in the dials with the rest of Jaxon’s crew. She is strong willed, closed off and very, very sarcastic. Paige is a character I had no trouble bonding with. If Paige is to survive she will have to place her trust in the unlikeliest of places, allowing herself to be trained, to become more powerful, to prepare herself for the moment she is supposed to die. There she finds a secret hundreds of years in the making, one that has far reaching consequences not just for Paige, but for her fellow Clairvoyants.

Paige wakes up in pain to find she has been kidnapped and taken to Oxford, a city she thought to be gone. She lives her life as two separate people on one hand she is ‘The Pale Dreamer’ a clairvoyant in the service of Jaxon Hall, and the other she is the daughter of a Scion worker who works a dead end job at an oxygen bar. Paige Mahoney is an unnatural, a criminal, a dreamwalker. Samantha Shannon creates a world both truly unique and also recognisable. This was actually a re-read for me and I easily enjoyed it as much the second time around. But if Paige wants to regain her freedom she must allow herself to be nurtured in this prison where she is meant to die. Paige is assigned to Warden, a Rephaite with mysterious motives.

Attacked, drugged and kidnapped, Paige is transported to Oxford – a city kept secret for two hundred years, controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. It is raining the day her life changes for ever. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant and, in the world of Scion, she commits treason simply by breathing. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people’s minds.

Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon Hall.

The bone season by samantha shannon