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The Bone Season Audiobook by Samantha Shannon— narrated by Alana Kerr Collins
In The Bone Season, Samantha Shannon builds a 2059 London ruled by a clairvoyant-hunting regime and drops a gifted young criminal named Paige straight into its darkest institution, for readers who want dense, rule-bound fantasy with real teeth.
Why the audiobook wins
The Bone Season builds a 2059 London with its own criminal slang, a seven-order clairvoyance hierarchy and a city nobody is supposed to know exists. Shannon front-loads a great deal of vocabulary, and Alana Kerr Collins reads it the way a native speaker would, without stopping to explain, which turns out to be the fastest way in. You pick it up because you are not being taught it.
Collins is Irish and gives Paige the accent Shannon wrote, so the Oxford setting and the London underworld sound as separate as they are meant to. Eighteen and a half hours is a real investment, and it is the first of a long series, which is the standard argument for starting it in audio.
Eighteen hours, one clairvoyant criminal, one penal colony. One Audible credit covers the recording.
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- Who narrates the The Bone Season audiobook?
- Alana Kerr Collins narrates the audiobook edition of The Bone Season.
- How long is the The Bone Season audiobook?
- The audiobook runs 18 hr 38 min.
- Is the The Bone Season audiobook worth listening to?
- We scored The Bone Season 4.1 out of 5. The Bone Season builds a 2059 London with its own criminal slang, a seven-order clairvoyance hierarchy and a city nobody is supposed to know exists. Shannon front-loads a great deal of vocabulary, and Alana Kerr Collins reads it the way a native speaker would, without stopping…
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- Eligible new Audible members can use a free-trial credit to listen in the Audible app. Eligibility and current offer terms are set by Audible.Listen to The Bone Season free with an Audible trial
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- Is The Bone Season on Kindle Unlimited?
- No. The Bone Season was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 16, 2026.
