Making the transition to Kobo today, I think I could get used to an eReader. Pretty damn cool that my reviews could get me something for free. This week was my first week of collage, and I’m liking it so far. I’m most excited for my creative writing workshop. Finally I can get some constructive criticism.
It is the year 2059. Several major world cities are under the control of a security force called Scion. Paige Mahoney works in the criminal underworld of Scion London, part of a secret cell known as the Seven Seals. The work she does is unusual: scouting for information by breaking into others’ minds. Paige is a dreamwalker, a rare kind of clairvoyant, and in this world, the voyants commit treason simply by breathing. But when Paige is captured and arrested, she encounters a power more sinister even than Scion. The voyant prison is a separate city—Oxford, erased from the map two centuries ago and now controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. These creatures, the Rephaim, value the voyants highly—as soldiers in their army. Paige is assigned to a Rephaite keeper, Warden, who will be in charge of her care and training. He is her master. Her natural enemy. But if she wants to regain her freedom, Paige will have to learn something of his mind and his own mysterious motives.
Brace yourself for a world full of unnaturals: criminal clairivoyants of future London. The first page of this book thrusts the reader into a marble swirl of paranormal and fantasy.
The vocabulary might be a bit confusing at the start of the story, there are many new words that take a stretch to get used to. The slang used is supposedly based on language from historic London, I recommend having a peek at the glossary found at the back of the book before getting started.
There isn’t much character development for the majority of this novel, but I have a feeling that it will come later on in the series, which will consist of 7 books. It takes quite a while for the full story of Paige’s background to emerge, and that might have made her character seem a bit flat. She does go through a change near the ending.
I appreciated the fact that there wasn’t a rush when it came to romance. The tension built throughout the story between the two characters was interesting, it kept me guessing about what their relationship really was about.
Shannon is a fairly new and young writer and she’s doing well for her first novel. Thinking back I still feel like there is something missing, but I know that I enjoyed this book and will definitely put faith in the author and read the next book. I’ll give her 3.5 OUT OF 5, check out her blog here http://samantha-shannon.blogspot.ca/
Later cheese graters,
-MRR
