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| Title | : | The Scorpion Rules (Prisoners of Peace #1) |
| Author | : | Erin Bow |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 384 pages |
| Published | : | September 22nd 2015 by Margaret K. McElderry Books |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Fantasy. LGBT |
Erin Bow
Hardcover | Pages: 384 pages Rating: 3.41 | 6102 Users | 1454 Reviews
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The world is at peace, said the Utterances. And really, if the odd princess has a hard day, is that too much to ask?Greta is a duchess and crown princess—and a hostage to peace. This is how the game is played: if you want to rule, you must give one of your children as a hostage. Go to war and your hostage dies.
Greta will be free if she can survive until her eighteenth birthday. Until then she lives in the Precepture school with the daughters and sons of the world’s leaders. Like them, she is taught to obey the machines that control their lives. Like them, she is prepared to die with dignity, if she must. But everything changes when a new hostage arrives. Elián is a boy who refuses to play by the rules, a boy who defies everything Greta has ever been taught. And he opens Greta’s eyes to the brutality of the system they live under—and to her own power.
As Greta and Elián watch their nations tip closer to war, Greta becomes a target in a new kind of game. A game that will end up killing them both—unless she can find a way to break all the rules.
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| Original Title: | The Scorpion Rules |
| ISBN: | 1481442716 (ISBN13: 9781481442718) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Prisoners of Peace #1 |
| Literary Awards: | CLA Book of the Year for Young Adult (2016) |
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Ratings: 3.41 From 6102 Users | 1454 ReviewsJudgment Regarding Books The Scorpion Rules (Prisoners of Peace #1)
Brilliant, haunting and unforgettable. I've read this story in three different drafts now, twice in manuscript and now in ARC form, and it gets more extraordinary every time. The worldbuilding is original and thorough, the characters diverse and full of humanity (including some that aren't, technically, human) and the story keeps ratcheting up the tension with a perfect balance between humor and horror. You will never look at goats, or certain pieces of farm equipment, without either laughing orNon-formulaic, diverse, vaguely dystopian YA novel!!!!!!!!! o/ I didn't even mind the love triangle because it wasn't really a love triangle at all!!! GOD, THIS WAS GREAT. /god/ Ok, the first thing I need to say is that I LOVED Greta, the narrator and protagonist. The main reason for this is that she. was. dutiful. and. responsible. The entire novel is about her willingness to die for and be useful to the ~tyrannical system~ because she knows it generally works to keep the peace. This is so much
DNF at 75% because I'm so bored. No stars if I could. I'm so confused. And I just don't care. A sonic boom.It crashed into us like a slap to the ear. The stuck goat shouted. From the trees all around, loose apples pattered down. Grego bolted for the edge of the grove, leaving Atta alone with the ladder.We all wanted to go with him, of course, butWait! The goat! I called.My classmates stopped and turned and looked at me. On their faces, varying degrees of annoyance, resignation, and respect
It wasnt a global war more a global series of regional wars. We called them the War Storms. They were bad. The water reserves gave out, the food supplies collapsed, and everybody caught these exciting new diseases, which is one of those fun side effects of climate shift that we didnt pay enough attention to in the planning stages. I saw the plague pits, I saw the starving armies, and eventually IWell, it was my job, wasnt it? I saved you. Oh. My. God.Although I love a lot of books, I am not
I picture Erin Bow smiling evilly as she wrote this book. I'm smiling now just thinking about the trap - disguised as the safe and old - that this book lures you into.Because you know exactly what this is, right? You've read the description and you think you know whats coming, don't you? A future world where an evil tyrant has taken over and enforced a set of crazy rules. A future world through the eyes of a female narrator who becomes irrevocably changed when a new boy comes into her life. You
Dnf 65%.If you like goats you'll like this book... However I am not one of those people who like goats soooooooooooooooooo this wasn't for me.
Another entry in the "teens in jeopardy" subgenre, this one stood out for me because the super government actually made sense in how it came about.It's lethally simple: world leaders have to surrender their kids, and if they declare war, the kids are killed by the AI who now controls the weapons platforms of the world.I think this book would be upsetting for younger readers, as the kids in jeopardy are really in danger of their lives. Including little ones. You find that out in the first few
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