‘The Bone Season’
Bloomsbury signed up Samantha Shannon’s The Bone Season as a seven-book series—not even Harry Potter had a vote of confidence like that. But is it any good? Leila Sales reviews the dystopian YA novel.
Leila Sales is the author of This Song Will Save Your Life (Sept. 17, Farrar, Straus & Giroux Books for Young Readers) as well as Past Perfect and Mostly Good Girls. Visit her at leilasales.com or follow her @LeilaSalesBooks.
Bloomsbury signed up Samantha Shannon’s The Bone Season as a seven-book series—not even Harry Potter had a vote of confidence like that. But is it any good? Leila Sales reviews the dystopian YA novel.
There’s a growing genre of novels narrated by dead, young girls. Leila Sales examines the problems with supernatural protagonists.