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Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye

50 reviews

sunrae_booknook's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

This book came with the trigger warning but it did not let you take a second away from them. It was a very dark and hard read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Rape, Torture, War, Blood, Bullying, Gaslighting, Genocide, Police brutality, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Gore, and Hate crime

ashlislibrary's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Genocide, Child death, Gun violence, Colonisation, Self harm, Rape, War, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Murder, Hate crime, and Death of parent

mer1554's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, War, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Torture, Slavery, Sexual assault, Racism, and Colonisation

abception's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Genocide, Blood, and Death of parent

lindsloveslit's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional slow-paced

3.0

What a wild ride. This books is dark - if you're going to pick it up MAKE SURE TO LOOK AT THE CONTENT WARNINGS beforehand because there are a lot of triggers throughout. It is a fantasy book, with a good story that is very connected to the world and reality we live in. If I had to compare it to anything, I'd say it was Pocahontas meets the magic of Children of Blood and Bone

I know it's fiction, but what I realized while reading is that I love when fiction is believable and consistent. TBH, there were parts that didn't remain consistent and didn't make sense to me. I missed some detail, i wanted a lot more character development, and the last chapter confused the heck out of me. The ending was also crazy crazy abrupt - it didn't feel complete to me, which is why it dropped from four stars to three for me. 

That said, I still liked the author, and when she writes another book I will definitely be giving it a read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, War, Genocide, Sexual assault, Torture, Child abuse, Death of parent, Gun violence, and Murder

hckilgour's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

While the “analogy” of the story and the characters are good, the plot was lack luster. It didn’t feel like there was truly a goal until the last third of the book.

Dane as a character was interesting. His final twist I like. However, his little “romance” with Sloane was creepy. He was at least ten years her senior.

The ending was also a little confusing. I’m still trying to figure out what it meant. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Child death, Murder, and Genocide

Child soldiers

bookwormbullet's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Death, Genocide, Murder, War, and Gore

Moderate: Sexual assault, Death of parent, and Sexual violence

lennie_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Blood, War, Violence, Gun violence, Grief, Death of parent, Xenophobia, Racism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, and Colonisation

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Self harm

bookishflower's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

I really wanted to like this, but I think it was just not my thing as I found it quite triggering. (This is my own fault for not knowing reading this book would not be good for me personally). 
However, this book has my total respect and there is no doubt that this is a rich world that will be so meaningful to other readers. You can tell the sheer amount of research that Falaye put into this book, how the topic of child soldiers was handled brutally beautifully. 
However, I was just not mentally prepared enough for the unrelenting and hard-hitting reality built into Blood Scion. I’d strongly advise checking the trigger warnings. I feel this book should be approached with the same discretion as The Poppy War which I have avoided but respected from a distance for this very reason. 
I’m glad I read Blood Scion because of Fairyloot and the read your own adventure read-a-thon, but I don’t think I will read this book again (at least not for a while).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Violence, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Self harm, War, and Xenophobia

sknappy1's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Some parts are very brutal. Contains gritty violence.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, and Sexual assault

Minor: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Genocide, and Vomit