Deborah currently lives in Toronto with her husband and their partner-in-crime yorkie, Major. RT Ellethevillain: The InyteAwards finalists for Best Novel: YA BALLAD & DAGGER - Daniel José Older BLOODMARKED - Tracy Deonn BLOOD SCION - Deborah Falaye LAKELORE - Anna-Marie McLemore THE KINDRED - Alechia Dow. Brown, New York Times bestselling author of A Song of Wraiths and Ruin 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 will-she is a Scion, a descendant of. When she’s not writing about fierce Black girls with bad-ass magic, she can be found obsessing over all things reality TV. In a nutshell, 'Blood Scion' is a brutal, compelling read that I thoroughly enjoyed despite the weak romance. 'Equal parts soaring fantasy, heart-pounding action, and bloody social commentary, Blood Scion is a triumph of a book.' -Roseanne A. She grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, where she spent her time devouring African Literature, pestering her grandma for folktales, and tricking her grandfather into watching Passions every night. 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.įollowing one girl’s journey of magic, injustice, power, and revenge, Deborah Falaye’s debut novel, inspired by Yoruba-Nigerian mythology, is a magnetic combination of Children of Blood and Bone and An Ember in the Ashes.ĭeborah Falaye is a Nigerian Canadian young adult author. Under the Lucis’ brutal rule, her identity means her death if her powers are discovered.

A strong hand yanks me back by my shirt and slams my body to the ground. Instead, a firefly twirls out of the darkness, f.

I reach for my dagger, ready to stab my way free if need be. Blood Scion is Deborah Falaye’s debut novel and released on March 8th from HarperTeen, a division of HarperCollins. Something flickers at the edge of my vision. Fifteen-year-old Sloane can incinerate an enemy at will-she is a Scion, a descendant of the ancient Orisha gods. Blood Scion was an amazing powerhouse debut, and personally I think it should have been marketed as New Adult due to the graphic nature of violence within.

Blood scion by deborah falaye