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THE BONE SEASON BY SAMANTHA SHANNON

30/8/2016

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The hotly anticipated third book in the bestselling Bone Season series – a ground-breaking, dystopian fantasy of extraordinary imagination

Following a bloody battle against foes on every side, Paige Mahoney has risen to the dangerous position of Underqueen, ruling over London's criminal population.

But, having turned her back on Jaxon Hall and with vengeful enemies still at large, the task of stabilising the fractured underworld has never seemed so challenging.

Little does Paige know that her reign may be cut short by the introduction of Senshield, a deadly technology that spells doom for the clairvoyant community and the world as they know...


I am super excited and blessed to announce that Samantha Shannon has chosen me as one of the many great advocates of the compelling Bone Season series. For those of you who do not know, I have bee a huge fan of series since I first laid eyes upon the book trailer. It was love at first sight, and read. The Bone Season is honestly one of the most original and compelling series I have come across. I’ve been dying to read The Song Rising after The Mine Order ended on such a crazy cliffhanger that made me yearn to find out if what I had suspected were to be true. It is an honour to present to you new updates of exclusive content of the upcoming novel in the series, The Song Rising, which is due out in March 2017.
 
So without further adieu, I present to you *drum roll* the prelude of The Song Rising! But be WARNED, there will be SPOILERS. Hence why I shall HEAVILY recommend NOT READING the prologue if you have NOT READ The Mine Order.
 
YOU. HAVE. BEEN. WARNED. Enjoy!
 

CLICK HERE to enjoy an exclusive sneak peak of The Song Rising:

The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon:
BOOK 1: The Bone Season
BOOK 2: The Mime Order
BOOK 3: The Song Rising
BOOK 4: Untitled
BOOK 5: Untitled
BOOK 6: Untitled
BOOK 7: Untitled

PRELUDE

2 November, 2059
The lights scalded my borrowed eyes. I was still inside a different body, standing on the same floor, but everything had changed.
There was a smile on his lips. That old gleam in his eye, like I’d just brought him good news from the auction house. He wore a black waistcoat embroidered with interlinked gold anchors, and a scarlet cravat was tied at his throat. One silk-clad hand grasped an ebony cane.
‘I see you have mastered possession at a distance,’ he said. ‘You
are full of surprises.’
The cane’s handle was porcelain, shaped like the head of a white horse.
‘I believe,’ Nashira said, her voice soft, ‘that you are already acquainted with my new Grand Overseer.’
I let out my first breath since laying eyes on him.
He had tried to stop me. The scheming worm had silenced me for weeks, kept me from telling the world about the existence of the Rephaim. Yet here he was, looking as easy with them as he was with his own shadow.
‘Oh, dear. Have you swallowed that pilfered tongue?’ Jaxon let out a deep laugh. ‘Yes, Paige, I am here, with the Rephaim! In the Archon, wearing the anchor! Are you aghast? Are you oh-so-scan- dalised? Is this all a terrible shock to your fragile sensibilities?’
‘Why?’ I whispered. ‘Why the hell are you here, Jaxon?’
‘Oh, as if I had a choice. With you as Underqueen, my beloved syndicate is doomed to self-destruction. Consequently, I have decided to return to my roots.’
‘Your roots?’
His smile widened.
‘You have chosen the wrong side. Join this one, darling,’ he continued, as if I hadn’t spoken. ‘I can’t  tell you how it hurts me  to see you in the pocket of those despicable Rephaim who call themselves Ranthen. Unlike the Rag and Bone Man, I have always believed you could be saved from their indoctrination. From Arcturus’s . . . seduction. I thought you had more sense than to blindly obey the man who was once your master.’
I stared at him coolly. ‘You’re asking me to do that now.’ ‘Touché.’ A fresh bruise cast a shadow on his cheekbone. ‘To
Terebellum Sheratan, you are a convenient pawn in an age-old game. Arcturus Mesarthim is nothing but her lure. Her bait. He took you under his wing in the penal colony on her orders, to entice you into the Ranthen’s net. And you, my darling – you fell for it . . . and everyone but you can see it.’
A chill warned me that something was wrong. Elsewhere in the citadel, someone had touched my body.
‘This is a fight you cannot win. Don’t mutilate the syndicate, O my lovely,’ he purred. ‘It was never meant as a weapon of war, and you were never meant to rule. Step back from the brink. All any of us in the Archon want is to protect you – you, and the wonder of your gift. If we must pull off your wings to stop you casting your- self into the fire, so be it.’ His pale hand reached out. ‘Come to us, Paige. Come to me. All this can be avoided.’
He had shocked me. We both knew it. If he thought he could scare me, he would have to try harder.
Another shiver. I felt myself falling out of the stranger’s dreams- cape, back into the æther’s embrace.
‘I’d rather burn,’ I said.
 
My brain was liquid, slithering out through my nose and down my front. I had to get out, get air into my lungs . . .


A hand took hold of my arm, but my skin was taut with goose- flesh, excruciatingly sensitive. I clawed off the oxygen mask, got the door open, and spilled out of the car in a jumble of limbs, gasping. The jolt peeled open the stitches in my side, wetting my shirt.
All of my composure fell apart. Jaxon was many things, but I couldn’t believe that he had gone to Scion. He had made his career out of living in their shadow, not their arms.
My wounds from the scrimmage flared, white-hot in my torso, deep and throbbing in my back. I pitched into the night, down the moss-slick steps to the Thames, and fell to my knees at the water’s edge, where I gripped my head between my hands and cursed my own stupidity. How, how could I have not foreseen this? There must have been some clue. Now he would be our most formidable enemy, a vital asset to the anchor.
I will find other allies, he had told me after the scrimmage. Be warned: you have not seen the last of me.
I should have killed him in the Rose Ring. The blade had been against his throat, but I’d been too weak to cut.
A very old ally, Nashira had said. One who returned to me . . . after twenty long years of estrangement . . .
A shout in the distance stopped time, or started it again. I hunched over the water, holding myself.
I have decided to return to my roots.
‘No,’ I breathed. ‘No, not you. Not you . . .’
He had been standing so comfortably alongside the Sargas. Not like someone who had only laid eyes on them for the first time     a few hours ago. And there were other things I had brushed off, that I hadn’t seen from behind the blindfold. He had always been wealthier than other mime-lords. Absinthe alone cost a fortune on the black market, and he drank it almost nightly. How had he leapt from pauper to prince? Surely not just from his writing; there was no money in pamphlets. Then there was the fact that he had spear- headed my rescue from the colony with no exit plan – senseless. It wasn’t in his nature to go blindly into anything. But if he had left the colony once before . . . if he had known there was a way out – or if the Sargas had allowed him to take me away . . .

An old ally. Twenty long years. Those were the only words I needed to work out who Jaxon Hall had once been, and who he was. I had no absolute proof, but I knew – I knew, in my heart, that my instinct was right.
He wasn’t just a traitor. He was the traitor.
The man who had betrayed the Ranthen twenty years ago to buy his freedom from the Rephaim.
The man who had left the scars on Warden’s back.
The man who was responsible for the deaths of every prisoner he had left behind in the colony.
And I had been his mollisher. His right hand.
The sound of footsteps broke through the white noise in my ears. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Warden sink into a crouch beside me.
I had to tell him. I couldn’t carry this knowledge alone.
‘I know who betrayed you twenty years ago,’ I said. ‘I know who gave you the scars.’
Silence. I realised I was shivering.
‘It is not safe out here,’ Warden finally said. ‘We can discuss this at the music hall.’
The thoughts tangled like barbed wire in my head. I was every- body’s puppet, caught in a thousand strings.
Nick ran to the railings above us. ‘Vigiles,’ he shouted. ‘Warden, bring her up here!’
Warden stayed where he was. I was afraid he would lack the ability to read my expression – that I might have to say the name myself – but as the moments ticked past, I watched it dawn on him, just as it had on me. A fire entered his eyes.
‘Jaxon.’

37 Comments
DarkHunter101
24/8/2016 05:11:47 pm

OMG SO EXCITED!! March is too far away!!

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Abooktopia link
25/8/2016 10:14:05 am

It's a shame that they had moved the publishing date. I do wish a book came out each year, and not every two years for the wait is much too long.

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Angelina Lee
24/8/2016 06:02:08 pm

I am so excited for this!! And this prologue just makes me want it even more!!! AHHHHHH

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Sandra Cassiograce
24/8/2016 06:34:23 pm

So excited to see where this goes next!!

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Elisa Tuck
24/8/2016 08:24:03 pm

Sah nervous for what's about to go down

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Zyan Raihanah
24/8/2016 10:24:13 pm

Shit is going to hit the ceiling

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Emma Smith
25/8/2016 07:38:09 am

Okay THAT BOOK TRAILER GOT ME HOOKED. WHERR CAN I PUTCHASE THIS BEAUTY 😍😍😍😍

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Abooktopia link
25/8/2016 10:15:45 am

You have to read them! You will not regret purchasing these gorgeous books.

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Ana
25/8/2016 09:07:54 am

I’m both so excited and scared and I don’t know if my emotions will be ready for all of the suspense

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Abooktopia link
25/8/2016 10:16:30 am

I'm so nervous to see what new secrets will be unveiled and excited to see where Shannon will take us next.

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Ana
26/8/2016 05:09:56 pm

OMG Same here. But I need to know what happens and I'm so curious about the past and each person's back story

Carolyn Hembe
25/8/2016 01:17:54 pm

I'm so excited to see what happens next in the series!!

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Josh Noah
25/8/2016 09:47:58 pm

YESS bby COME TO DADDY

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Bianca
26/8/2016 08:32:15 am

Damn it. I need more!

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Lisa Crow
26/8/2016 09:29:54 am

nice theme change btw :D It's my fav color so I'm loving it

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Darien
26/8/2016 02:01:27 pm

What's with the Banner?

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Darien
26/8/2016 02:01:40 pm

Like the advocate

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Abooktopia link
26/8/2016 02:25:05 pm

The Bone Season Advocate banner is one of the few exclusive advocate assets that I had received to use on my website, and social medias.

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Darien
26/8/2016 02:29:47 pm

What does an advocate mean?

Abooktopia link
26/8/2016 02:33:56 pm

As an advocate for The Bone Season, I receive:

• Early proof copies of all books in the series.
• Exclusive assets and material to post on your blog.
• A hardback signed by Samantha of each new book as they are published

In return, I tell the world about how great The Bone Season series is (as at it is as of my favourite series) and I post exclusive materials for all the upcoming novels in the series on my blog.

Darien
26/8/2016 02:42:36 pm

That's sick af

Jacky
27/8/2016 10:33:16 pm

Woah...¿? How'd you get such a sick deal 😱😱😱

Abooktopia link
3/9/2016 02:14:38 pm

The publisher was nice enough to contact me and ask if I would wish to be a part of the program. All i had to do was fill out the form given to me, and tell them why I wished to be a part of the program. There were multiple applications and mine was fortunate enough to be accepted!

Jacky
5/9/2016 11:17:53 am

Gah sah lucky!!! How I wish they did more programs such as that

Bianca
26/8/2016 11:26:12 pm

Is it just me or don't you like the new cover design 😕

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Bianca
26/8/2016 11:29:22 pm

Like yes I need more of this series but I just MUCH PREFER the ORIGINAL COVERS a lot more...

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Emily Brown
27/8/2016 10:39:16 am

Thxs for listing the trailer!! Now I'll definitely check out this series

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Zyan Raihanah
27/8/2016 11:15:20 am

Jaxon makes me so conflicted. He's horrible and things would just be so much easier is he were.... well.... dead.

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Simon Hiddelson
27/8/2016 11:39:54 am

It’s strange how he somehow became the only ‘evil’ or so character

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Jacky
27/8/2016 10:34:37 pm

Though he's kinda the bad guy here, you gotta admit you kinda do like his character

Jacky
27/8/2016 10:35:19 pm

....and not want him to die....

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Simon Hiddelson
28/8/2016 10:37:43 am

It's odd how one can somehow not want him to die. But do...? But really don't......

Jacky
28/8/2016 11:37:43 am

It's because you end up Loving every scene he's in.

Simon Hiddelson
28/8/2016 05:18:40 pm

He's such an amazingly crafted character one must admit 😅

Maddie
31/8/2016 11:11:17 pm

I know what you've done with your theme 😉💛

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Abooktopia link
3/9/2016 02:12:55 pm

It does suit the Advocated banner I must say (":

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Dr. Kold_kadavr_flatliner, MD link
11/6/2024 04:10:49 am

Lemme show you how much I love you, girls:
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Cya soon, girl gorgeous...

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