Falaye does a fantastic job making each character stand out regardless of whether they’re good or bad. Despite the constant need to be vigilant, the connections she develops with other characters become central to her survival. These relationships are quite particular because of the setting. This makes her constant struggle to preserve parts of her humanity the central emotional conflict of the book, above her revenge and the relationships she forms. While she is used to the constant terror of discovery, she now has to reckon with the deep-seated guilt and revulsion her actions make her feel, even though she acknowledges it was the only way to survive. Having grown up under the constant threat of an oppressive regime, she is already hardened at fifteen but the training seeks to break her humanity entirely. Sloane is a deeply complex character from the very beginning. When Sloane is drafted into the Lucis Empire’s army as a child soldier, she knows her life is at stake but she is determined to persevere and find the truth about her mother. 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. 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. Under the Lucis’ brutal rule, her identity means her death if her powers are discovered. I will be the worst monster they ever created.įifteen-year-old Sloane can incinerate an enemy at will - she is a Scion, a descendant of the ancient Orisha gods. Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye is Sloane’s revenge story on the empire that robbed her of everything.
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