Don't just suspend your disbelief - send it to the pictures and sink into this fabulous, epic fantasy thriller ... Lavish, ebullient, escapist - The Times

The Bone Season, set in 2059, stems from Shannon's interest in works such as The Handmaid's Tale and A Clockwork Orange, which have backdrops of repressive regimes, and in John Donne's poetry - Sunday Times

Shannon writes so well that you stay interested, intrigued by the knife-edge motivation of character's with "six-seater lips" whose "high-collard dresses always made her think of the gallows". And although many of the paths walked by The Bone Season will already have been well travelled by fantasy readers, Shannon shows real skill in combining them so easily into an original and enjoyable escapist fictional world.... The ending certainly gripped me to the marrow - Daily Telegraph

The Bone Season plots out a criminal underworld in a future where clairvoyancy exists; part fantasy, part dystopia, all intrigue. It's a world of impressive scope, accompanied by Tolkienesque appendices, glossaries, maps and all - Vogue

A Hunger Games vibe and a few Shades of Grey - Vanity Fair

Samantha Shannon's The Bone Season is my perfect cup of tea - Daily Mail

Plenty for readers to get absorbed in - Wall Street Journal

Frightening and well-imagined ... fascinating ... The large talent on display here suggests just how good Shannon could get in the next six books of this promising series - Washington Post

A rapid-fire wonder of a book, where clairvoyants and humans battle it out against scary monsters and super-creeps - Marie Claire

The Bone Season is more like the novel that JK Rowling and William Gibson never teamed up to write - Wired

A complex and epic dystopia - Bookseller

The book invokes both the political tyranny of George Orwell and the bucolic mythmaking of J.R.R. Tolkein - USA Today

A dark, embattled, highly wrought fantasy ... Whatever the future holds, there is no doubt that Samantha is the real thing, her own sternest critic and a born storyteller - Observer

A Hunger Games-esque debut - Irish Daily Mail

It has conviction in spades ... The Bone Season has the kids vs dystopia kick of The Hunger Games, but while it's better written ... It's also got the star-crossed romance of Twilight - SFX Magazine

A dazzlingly brainy, witty and bewitching tale of outrageous courage, heroic compassion, transcendent love and the quest for freedom ... the first in a thoughtful fantasy series by a brilliant young writer - Booklist

Dynamic and direct ... There is an exciting breadth to Shannon's world - Evening Standard

Had me gripped as if in a vice - Stylist

There's a great imagination at work here, and Shannon's just getting started - People