NPR called it “Intelligent, inventive and engrossing.” Booklist called it “dazzlingly brainy, witty and bewitching.” NBC’s Today show chose the book as the first for its new monthly book club. A second book, “The Mime Order,” was published in 2015. Her first book, “The Bone Season,” published in 2013, was a critical and commercial success, selling 7,000 copies in seven days andeventually becoming an international bestseller. Rowling and Suzanne Collins, author of “The Hunger Games.” Because of her six-figure, seven-book deal with Bloomsbury Publishing, Samantha Shannon has been compared to “Harry Potter” author J.K. Samantha Shannon comfortably fit into this glamorous group of timeless authors. At the mention of the names of such authors, images of the riveting drama playing out in their books swiftly come to the minds o lovers and haters alike. The Mask Falling is a gripping, fantastical new addition to this “intoxicating urban-fantasy series” (NPR.org) that will leave readers begging for more.The world has known so many authors but there are very few who have stolen the spotlight wherever they go or whenever their names are mentioned. But there are those who know the revolution began with them-and could end with them. Meanwhile, she strives to understand her bond with Arcturus, which grows stronger by the day.
Her risks promise high reward: the Parisian underworld could yield the means to escalate her rebellion to outright war.Īs 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.
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. The mysterious Domino Program has plans for Paige, but she has ambitions of her own in this new citadel. 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.
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Season and The Priory of the Orange Tree, the stunning fourth novel set in the world of Scion.ĭreamwalker Paige Mahoney has eluded death again.
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