A review by fictionaladventures
Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye

challenging dark tense fast-paced
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

This was not at all what I expected, and at first that threw me off, but I did get more into it as I read. I was expecting a high fantasy, and instead this was a fantasy set in a world very like our own, with guns and airplanes and stuff, and it was way more military-based than I expected. It’s inspired by real-life horrors endured by child soldiers, so it can be incredibly hard to read. It’s definitely not one you read for enjoyment, but it was powerful and brutal and made me furious that anything like this could possibly happen in our world. The stakes were high and things always got worse than I thought they possibly could. I’d recommend this to fans of Children of Blood and Bone and The Gilded Ones. 
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