Setting of Bone Season

The Bone Season is set in the time period of the future specifically 2059 so they have very advanced technology and they have found very interesting things out about the world and the human body. Like the main character is a clairvoyant so she is like a dream walker. The book is set in London and is near Oxford which does not exist now, it is a place that is like a criminal underground network that is illegal.   The things who rule this underground place are called  the Rephaim, they are much higher than the Scion who run the city completely. There is also a setting that is quite different from that of the underground criminal network and that is at her parents house, her parents are very normal and her home life was very simple at her parents house. Her parents don't know what she is doing with the criminals they have no idea and if they did they would stop her immediately. 

A lot of people are very confused with the changes of scenery but I actually really enjoy it because it changes the mood and it chafes the pace of the story a lot. 

About Samnatha Shannon

I decided to research my author, Samantha Shannon, so that I could understand her writing. She is British and was born on November 8,1991 in Hammersmith, she is now age 22. Shannon grew up in west London and began writing in highschool. The first book that she ever wrote was at the age 15 it remains to be unpublished but it is called Aurora. Shannon attended Bishop Ramsey School, she studied English and Literature, but she manly specialized in Emily Dickinson and the Principles of Film Criticism at St. Anne's College, Oxford. And graduated in 2013 from Oxford University. In 2012 before graduation she signed a six figure book deal with Bloomsbury publishing so that she could write the first three books in a seven book series starting with The Bone Season. Film rights to The Bone Season were sold to Andy Sekis, another writer, and his company The Imaginarium Studios in the fall of 2012 but later the rights were acquired by Twentieth Century Fox and Chernon Studios in the fall of 2013. 

In 2012 while she was attending college the Women of the Future award short listed her as a contender for The Young Star Award. Her first novel The Bone Season has now been sold in over 27 countries worldwide. This book recieved even more hype than the last book in the Divergent series so I hope hat this up and coming new author can live up to the hype of her first published book. 

Why I chose my book

I chose the book The Bone Season because I have heard a lot about it and it was recommended to me by a lot of people. Goodreads also recommended that I should read it. I also really like books that have strong female characters and this book seemed to have one, and it does. I looked at this book on Goodreads and it received really high ratings and a lot of people in my family have read it and they all really enjoyed it so they all recommended it to me. I really like futuristic books with a utopian like society that the main character must over come so that they can succeed. And this book seems like it has this so far, with the main character being a clairvoyant and her government not liking her people, so she must figure out a way to be herself and find a way to do what she can do without the fear of her government lashing out at her and her having to fear for her life.

Letter to the author

Dear Mrs. Veronica Roth,

I have been an avid reader of your Divergent series and I have really enjoyed them all and I am really looking forward to the movie this year. I really like the writing styles that you use to create a lot of suspense and you really make people think about your work, and I think that not a lot of authors do that now. I also like how much your characters developed over the course of the books and how complex they became even when the characters themselves didn't know that they were changing. 

I would like to know why you chose the ending of the series, for those people who haven't read it I won't give it away. But I would really like I know what process you used to decide to end the book on such an extreme way. In some ways I like how the series ended, at a cliff hanger and leaving the mind to process all of the events. But I don't really agree how the book ended because it left a little bit of an ache in the pit of my stomach, and it made me feel like the ending was a joke, so I was expecting a different ending. But I am really looking forward to what you will do with the rest of your career.

Thank you for your time,

Rhys Green