dane's Reviews > The Bone Season

All I knew about this book was what was on the back of the UK book…which is to say, basically nothing. It turned out to be drastically different than I expected but it was still a good story, and one I look forward to continuing.

The start was entrenched in info-dumps which made everything super confusing and hard to read but it petered out eventually and I think I understand the terms fairly well. However, the writing itself read quite weirdly throughout the entire book as new sentences were taken when they could’ve been continued from the previous which made the writing read abrupt and stilted but I know Shannon wrote this when they were nineteen so I can expect they’ve improved greatly.

There’s not much to really say as it feels like a book of it’s time - which isn’t necessarily a bad thing - but the plot was like most other dystopian-fantastical books when it was released but with a fresher take on the fantasy elements.

I knew this would be a three stars from the beginning, but it’s a good three stars as I still enjoyed reading it and can’t wait to read more!