The Song Rising

Bone Season Series

Author: Samantha Shannon

Book 3 in the Bone Season series

Pages: 384

Published: 2017

Age: 14+

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 it...

About the Bone Season Series

Books in series order

  1. 1.The Bone Season(2013)
  2. 2.The Mime Order(2015)
  3. 3.The Song Rising(2017)
  4. 4.The Mask Falling(2021)
  5. 5.The Dark Mirror(2025)
  6. +The Pale Dreamer: A Bone Season Novella(2016)

Reading age: 14+ years

This series should be read in order.

The year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon Hall. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people's minds. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant and, in the world of Scion, she commits treason simply by breathing.

It is raining the day her life changes for ever. Attacked, drugged and kidnapped, Paige is transported to Oxford – a city kept secret for two hundred years, controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. Paige is assigned to Warden, a Rephaite with mysterious motives. He is her master. Her trainer. Her natural enemy. But if Paige wants to regain her freedom she must allow herself to be nurtured in this prison where she is meant to die.