Paige works in the black market and what she trades in is magic; her specialty involves scouring other people’s minds for information. Alarming as this is, it is far less disturbing than the world of 2059 which, suspicious of magic, locks up those that possess it, forcing Paige and her kind into an outlaw existence. The Bone Season (Bloomsbury, $17) is the first installment of a new series by the exciting young Oxford author Samantha Shannon, and when the action enters those hallowed halls, it makes moves that will cause you to spend your hard-earned vacation hours turning these pages—tracking the secret societies, brutal hierarchy, and the magic that summons our most ancient understanding of the mythic while coexisting in a world of tablets and human programming. The Bone Season and its sequels will surely take you on an exceptional journey.
