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A review by pagesplotsandpints
The Pale Dreamer by Samantha Shannon
3.0
<b>Read Completed 7/10/24 |</b> 3 stars
I did a reread of THE BONE SEASON several years after my initial read and finally decided to continue the series! I was much more excited for it and I decided to work backwards to the novella first before continuing on.
THE PALE DREAMER deals with Paige's time in the Seven Seals and first learning her abilities. I enjoyed this prequel in that sense, and I was hoping to see more world-building from it because we don't get to spend a *ton* of time here in THE BONE SEASON. There is definitely some, but I was really hoping to jump into some more of the classes / orders and all of the different abilities. More world, less action. This was really mostly action with the team hunting a poltergeist that I didn't know anything about and didn't really care. It was a little too disconnected for what I was hoping to see, so I just didn't enjoy it as much as I wanted to. I'm more excited to be connected to TBS and hopefully we get to explore more of all of that in future books.
I did a reread of THE BONE SEASON several years after my initial read and finally decided to continue the series! I was much more excited for it and I decided to work backwards to the novella first before continuing on.
THE PALE DREAMER deals with Paige's time in the Seven Seals and first learning her abilities. I enjoyed this prequel in that sense, and I was hoping to see more world-building from it because we don't get to spend a *ton* of time here in THE BONE SEASON. There is definitely some, but I was really hoping to jump into some more of the classes / orders and all of the different abilities. More world, less action. This was really mostly action with the team hunting a poltergeist that I didn't know anything about and didn't really care. It was a little too disconnected for what I was hoping to see, so I just didn't enjoy it as much as I wanted to. I'm more excited to be connected to TBS and hopefully we get to explore more of all of that in future books.