TheMask Falling

The fourth instalment of Samantha Shannon's international fantasy phenomenon. The Bone Season series has sold over half a million copies and been sold into 28 languages. Shannon is currently adapting the books for an eight part series commissioned by Lunar ParkSamantha Shannon's previous book, The Priory of the Orange Tree, debuted in the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller lists and has sold almost 150,000 copiesThe Mask Falling will be preceded by The Dawn Chorus, a novella bridging the events of Books 3 and 4 exclusive to ebookA return to the thrilling, gorgeous and gritty The Bone Season series, The Mask Falling follows the unforgettable heroine Paige Mahoney through the underworld of a dystopian ParisSamantha Shannon is the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of The Bone Season series. Her work has been translated into twenty-six languages. Her fourth novel, The Priory of the Orange Tree, was her first outside of The Bone Season series and was an international bestseller. She lives in London. samanthashannon.co.uk / @say_shannonThe Sunday Times bestseller, from the bestselling author of The Bone Season and The Priory of the Orange Tree Paige Mahoney has eluded death again. Snatched from the jaws of captivity and consigned to a safe house in the Scion Citadel of Paris, she finds herself caught between those factions that seek Scion's downfall and those who would kill to protect the Rephaim's puppet empire. The mysterious Domino Programme has plans for Paige, but she has ambitions of her own in this new citadel. With Arcturus Mesarthim - her former enemy - at her side, she embarks on an adventure that will lead her from the catacombs of Paris to the glittering hallways of Versailles. Her risks promise high reward: the Parisian underworld could yield the means to escalate her rebellion to outright war. As Scion widens its bounds and the free world trembles in its shadow, Paige must fight her own memories after her ordeal at the hands of Scion. Meanwhile, she strives to understand her bond with Arcturus, which grows stronger by the day. But there are those who know the revolution began with them - and could end with them...The Sunday Times bestseller, from the bestselling author of The Bone Season and The Priory of the Orange TreeFiercely intelligent and articulate, Samantha Shannon has been blazing a trail for a new generation of feminist fantasy authorsSamantha Shannon's fantasy series has attracted a large readership and much-deserved praise ... Uniquely different and complex ... The narrative exerts the same vice-like grip as before, with danger, deception, hair's-breadth escapes and new revelations coming thick and fastThis is an ebullient, gloriously complicated fantasy [...] the characters feel grippingly real. Shannon unravels her tangled tale in galloping prose, which will carry even the reluctant readers to the very satisfying endThe fourth book in Shannon's phenomenal The Bone Season series, The Mask Falling inhabits both gloomy Parisian catacombs and the opulent hallways of Versailles in an unputdownable continuation of the sagaFor lighter reading I am setting aside . the fourth volume of Samantha Shannon's series, The Mask Falling. If the BBC are cautious about embarking on the new Pullman trilogy once we get to the end of the (brilliantly realised) original, then Shannon's books - plucky heroine Paige, a repressive orthodoxy, a supernatural being, clairvoyants, low-life criminal gangs, exotic settings - would be a smart choiceDark, embattled, highly wrought fantasyFantasy writer Samantha Shannon delivers another large, complex supernatural thrillerShannon has continued to build on this imagined world with intricacy, and Paige's voice comes through to deliver a suspenseful storyLanguage as rich as a figgy pudding, the best terminology in the genre and gripping, edge-of-the-seat plotting to bootA rapid-fire wonder of a bookHad me gripped as if in a vice, keeping me hostage among the 452 pages until the end, when I was left eager for the next bookDynamic and direct ... There is an exciting breadth to Shannon's worldA dystopian thriller that deliversA massive, intricate story ... in [a] blisteringly paced plotTruly extraordinary and thrillingSlick and vivid ... Gives the fantasy genre a refreshing lease of life. The Bone Season is enough to transport even hardened sceptics of the fantasy genre into its imaginative realm The world is so carefully constructed [...] weaved with lies and deceit and impossible to predict