The Prefecture raises the child until they are 18, and then they can go home.
Then, that child is taken to a Prefecture. See, Talis, the AI that was tasked to stop the wars and decided the best way to do that was to blow up a bunch of cities and create new rules, came up with a brilliant plan: what’s the best way to stop a war? Make sure each side “has some skin in the game.” So, when a monarch or President of a territory wants to rule (like, before they become the monarch/President/whatever else they want to call themselves), they must have a child.
We are told the world was at war when the water started to dry up…and Talis saved them all by proclaiming The Utterances, casual-sounding advice taken as biblical law.Ĥ00 years later, we meet Greta Gustafsen Stewart, Duchess of Halifax and Crown Princess of the Pan-Polar Confederation. So, we start with a prologue…and I know what many writers advise: don’t start with a prologue! Well, I think it worked for this book. The review is bursting out of me, screaming to be written.Īll right, I’m giving in to it finally. I’ve waited for two days to write this review because I had papers or write…and I was also reading Vassa in the Night…so I put it off. I thought it was diverse, original, fresh…well, you’ll see. I will say this: this book hasn’t gotten the best reviews. This, my book blogging friends, was book intuition.
Mainly because if I’m feeling #coverlove over a book, I don’t think twice I just grab it. I usually chalk it up to the poor impulse control. It’s this nagging feeling inside you when you see a book that says, “ Read me: I’m the one you’re looking for,” and we (a lot of the time) dismiss it as #coverlove, or preconceived ideas about the book, or even poor impulse control. I think we all have a little bit of book intuition inside of us…have you ever thought that? Or felt it? I wondered why I had never read the first book, so I picked up both and checked them out at the same time. I only checked it out because its sequel, The Swan Riders, was sitting on the shelf (it had just come out, at least on the New Releases shelf in my library). It’s funny because I have always confused this book with Maggie Steifvater’s The Scorpio Races…so I went in thinking this book was about racing of some kind. This review can be found on my Blog, TeacherofYA’s Tumblr, or my Goodreads page Title: The Scorpion Rules (Prisoners of Peace #1)
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