The Bone Season

It pains me so much to write this review but this book was baaaadddd. The Priory of the Orange Tree is probably my favorite book ever so I figured reading more of Shannon's work would be a good idea. It was not.
This book just fundamentally did not work for me. The reluctant female chosen one is such a tired trope in my opinion (and yes I know this was written in 2013). I felt like there wasn't any nuance in Paige's understanding of Sheol I. Characters like Carl were much more interesting to me but we barely got to see those characters with any depth.
This book was incredibly contradictory, especially Paige herself. I found multiple instances where a character would do something that made absolutely no sense. Some of these choices would have been absolutely impossible for the characters even a few pages before and yet they completely change their minds without any explanation.
And the romance? Probably the worst pacing of romance I've ever read. Of course I'm not stupid so I saw it coming the second they laid eyes on each other but literally nothing changed from the time they met to their first kiss. Paige was just starting to trust this man and suddenly she's making out with him? When she's had almost no sexual experience before?!!
Needless to say I will not be continuing this series. And Samantha if you're reading this, I'm so sorry. But also I'm incredibly proud of how far you've come as an author. I can't even believe this was written by the same person who wrote such beautiful prose and character arcs in Priory. Congrats I guess. 
Edit: Just found out Samantha wrote this when she was 19. That makes complete and total sense.