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‘The Mask Falling’: Samantha Shannon’s latest novel helps you escape to Paris during the pandemic
Book 4 of the ‘The Bone Season’ series sets things up perfectly for the remaining three parts. Samantha Shannon.
When I was growing up in the late ’90s in Bangalore on a steady diet of idlis and fantasy fiction, all the heroes in the books were boys or men. The women were relegated to love interests, sidekicks, or the strong mother who fights for her children. My librarian claimed these books were for boys and by boys.
Now, over two decades later, girls and women are the subject of hundreds of fantasy books, and easily accessible to any teen. And yet, several “die-hard fantasy fans” still claim that women can neither master this genre nor make good protagonists. Samantha Shannon has proven them wrong since 2013 with
We’re excited to share an excerpt from Samantha Shannon’s
The Mask Falling, the fourth novel set in the world of Scion available January 26th from Bloomsbury.
Dreamwalker 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 Program 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.