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A review by charliauthor
Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye
5.0
This book is amazing.
From the very first page, Blood Scion drew me in in a way I didnt expect. While admittedly I was apprehensive about reading another Black Fantasy based in West African Orisha magic (thinking the theme had been oversaturated) this marriage of magic and the modern horrors of child soldiers was done beautifully.
Sloane is a Scion. A person blessed with powers from Gods but that also make her life a curse because of the oppressors who wish to destroy her for her power. She is drafted into an army as a child soldier on her 15th birthday as so many others are and is forced to kill her own kind for fear of being tortured and killed or worse, it being found out that shes a scion.
Sloane struggles to keep her humanity in a place determined to rip it from her and the very real comparisons to her life as “scion scum” and those of historical and contemporary racial injustice and oppressions had me in fits of tears as well as anger. The raw emotion i got from this was beautiful to feel and its links to ongoing social contemporary was amazing.
From the current war on women, to the racial privileges that many hold and are denied, to the social and economic conditions that separate us, Blood Scion opens the reader to a system that youve either experienced as the oppressed or viewed as the oppressor whether consciously or not.
Other than it feeling a little rushed at the end considering the previously rich narrative and some questionable love interest choices, Blood Scion is a beautiful book with beautifully written commentary on the barbaric institution that is government, politics and racism.
This book is powerful. As powerful as i can ever hope to be as a writer and a woman.
From the very first page, Blood Scion drew me in in a way I didnt expect. While admittedly I was apprehensive about reading another Black Fantasy based in West African Orisha magic (thinking the theme had been oversaturated) this marriage of magic and the modern horrors of child soldiers was done beautifully.
Sloane is a Scion. A person blessed with powers from Gods but that also make her life a curse because of the oppressors who wish to destroy her for her power. She is drafted into an army as a child soldier on her 15th birthday as so many others are and is forced to kill her own kind for fear of being tortured and killed or worse, it being found out that shes a scion.
Sloane struggles to keep her humanity in a place determined to rip it from her and the very real comparisons to her life as “scion scum” and those of historical and contemporary racial injustice and oppressions had me in fits of tears as well as anger. The raw emotion i got from this was beautiful to feel and its links to ongoing social contemporary was amazing.
From the current war on women, to the racial privileges that many hold and are denied, to the social and economic conditions that separate us, Blood Scion opens the reader to a system that youve either experienced as the oppressed or viewed as the oppressor whether consciously or not.
Other than it feeling a little rushed at the end considering the previously rich narrative and some questionable love interest choices, Blood Scion is a beautiful book with beautifully written commentary on the barbaric institution that is government, politics and racism.
This book is powerful. As powerful as i can ever hope to be as a writer and a woman.