The Pale Dreamer

The Pale Dreamer is a science novel by author Samantha Shannon. 16-year-old Paige Mahoney is working for the city’s biggest mime lord Jaxon Hall. He thinks that Paige Mahoney is hiding something, that’s why she can exist in his gang. This is the first part in the dramatic and attractive A Bone Season series..

Here are the top 3 reviews and comments that readers love about this fascinating book.

Review 1: The Pale Dreamer audiobook by Sabrina Williams

A great novella

This novella is meant to be read before The Bone Season even though it was published after The Bone Season. I would say reading it before or after is fine. If you read it before, you get a background to Jaxton, Nick, Eliza, and Paige before the events in The Bone Season occur. It helps with understanding more in The Bone Season. If you read it after, it fills in more details and adds to the story of The Bone Season while also redirecting your mind back to London and how everything works there before reading The Mime Order which I believe focuses more on London and the Mime lords and queens. Overall, I enjoyed it. It was good for a novella. A good story with just enough detail added. It doesn’t feel like a waste of time, and it contributes to the story.

 Review 2: The Pale Dreamer audiobook by PageCandy

Overall Impression: What a thrilling introduction to the world of the infamous Seven Seals. Not only do we get to see more of what life was like for Paige while working under Jax, we also get to go on a high-stakes chase through London after a pair of poltergeists. One thing I LOVE about The Bone Season series is how Shannon incorporates the stories of actual famous spirits who are rumored to haunt London, and this novella is no exception. You can read about the actual story of Sarah Metyard and Anne Naylor here.

Wine Pairing: I’m recommending a Pinot Grigio for this read, both due to its pale color and its potential to become rich and full-bodied depending upon its ripeness, quite like the character of Paige Mahoney herself.

Book Rating: FOUR STARS.
There are a lot of novellas coming out anymore that accompany larger book series. This is one of the more enjoyable ones I’ve read. Not only do we get a sneak peak into Paige’s life before The Bone Season, but Shannon has also woven a very well-developed storyline for such a short work.

Review 3: The Pale Dreamer audiobook by Callum

The Pale Dreamer by Samantha Shannon is a prequel novella set before the events of her The Bone Season series. While it’s a short, quick read – somewhere around 45/60 mins – it packs in a lot of world building and plot development.

Paige, a 16 year old clairvoyant, was rescued from the streets by Nick, who works for Jaxon Hall, the leader of a supernatural gang called the Seven Seals. This novella centers on one case they work together, chasing down two poltergeist that are causing destruction in future London, and establishes who she becomes in the main series.

I confess, I’ve yet to get around to reading any of The Bone Season series. So that means my entire knowledge of the characters and world come directly from this novella, which I count as a good thing because I can safely vouch that The Pale Dreamer stands perfectly well as a stand-alone novella.

Easily the best thing about Pale Dreamer is it’s sense of setting and atmosphere. I was completely immersed in the world and, while a few things could have been a bit more fleshed out, everything had a strong internal logic. The future London of this novella just feels right and real, which is especially impressive considering the page count of this novella. I’d assume any world building I felt was missing is probably already established in the main Bone Season series itself so I’ll definitely be checking in on those books to see what everything is about.

The characters too seemed mostly well fleshed out, again just lacking some of the depth that I’m sure fans of the main series already know. Paige is the main draw character wise, which makes sense as she’s the MC. The side characters felt a little two dimensional but I’d assume it’s, again because these are established characters from a series that’s been around for a while. From what I can tell of the plot of The Bone Season, this novella is set three years earlier and the main series focuses on Paige still so, again, it’s another good hook to pull you in to wanting to read the full series.

All in all, I really enjoyed my brief time with The Pale Dreamer and it has definitely succeeded in making me want to check out more of this series. Everything is well set and well enough established in this novella that it totally works as a standalone, but there’s still plenty of room for a lot of building and depth to be added giving the main series it’s real drive.

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