![]() ![]() Arrested, drugged, brutalised and brainwashed, she expects nothing less than torture and public execution – the Scion regime is savage in its persecution of "unnaturals". One night her luck runs out, and she's forced to use her powers to kill. Paige, whose special talent is for dream-walking in the aether, runs the gang's surveillance: thrilling but dangerous work, since she tends to stop breathing when she's out of her body. Talent-spotted as a schoolgirl by a sweet-talking procurer, groomed by one of London's most vicious mime-lords, she's one of the Seven Seals, the stars of a criminal syndicate: grifting a living in the forbidden realm of psychic powers. Little does her nice, dull father know that his unambitious daughter has a shocking secret life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since caffeine and alcohol are illegal mind-altering drugs, in 2059, "flavoured oxygen" is the convivial social lubricant of choice. I n the first volume of 21-year-old Samantha Shannon's projected seven-book series, heroine Paige Mahoney is 19, lives in central London and works as an ossista in an Oxygen bar. ![]()
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