num_pages: 432
description: This is what they deserve. They wanted me to be a monster. I will be the worst monster they ever created.Fifteen-year-old Sloane can incinerate an enemy at willshe is a Scion a descendant of the ancient Orisha gods.Under the Lucis brutal rule her identity means her death if her powers are discovered. But when she is forcibly conscripted into the Lucis army on her fifteenth birthday Sloane sees a new opportunity: to overcome the bloody challenges of Lucis training and destroy them from within.Sloane rises through the ranks and gains strength but in doing so risks something greater: losing herself entirely and becoming the very monster that she ahbors.Following one girls journey of magic injustice power and revenge this deeply felt and emotionally charged debut from Deborah Falaye inspired by Yoruba-Nigerian mythology is a magnetic combination of A Song of Wraiths and Ruin and Daughter of Smoke and Bone that will utterly thrill and capture readers.
language: English
title: Blood Scion
publisher: HarperTeen