The Bone Season, futur Harry Potter ?

Qualifié par certains de futur Harry Potter, le premier roman, The Bone Season de Samantha Shannon, jeune écrivain de 22 ans, est paru le 20 août en langue anglaise. Attendu depuis un an et demi, le secret autour de la série de sept livres à venir, aura su entretenir l’intérêt du public ainsi qu’un certain buzz. Les Echos Lifestyle nous livrent leur analyse sur le phénomène « The Bone Season » ou comment fabriquer un best-seller

Description : It is the year 2059. Several major world cities are under the control of a security force called Scion. Paige Mahoney works in the criminal underworld of Scion London, part of a secret cell known as the Seven Seals. The work she does is unusual: scouting for information by breaking into others’ minds. Paige is a dreamwalker, a rare kind of clairvoyant, and in this world, the voyants commit treason simply by breathing. But when Paige is captured and arrested, she encounters a power more sinister even than Scion. The voyant prison is a separate city—Oxford, erased from the map two centuries ago and now controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race [...] Lire la suite