![]() ![]() Bow continually yanks the rug out from under readers, defying expectations as she crafts a masterly story with a diverse cast, shocking twists, and gut-punching emotional moments. Greta’s pragmatic, reserved, yet passionate voice commands attention from the start, but in many ways it’s Talis, an AI with a sense of humor and a flair for the dramatic, that makes the story. Elián has no intention of playing along, and his arrival threatens to change everything. Her daily routine is thrown into confusion when a new hostage joins her Precepture. The Scorpion Rules presents a whole, interesting story, delivers a neat ending, and leaves me excited for Erin Bow’s next Prisoners of Peace installment all at once. One such hostage is Greta, Duchess of Halifax and Crown Princess of the Pan Polar Confederacy. Every would-be ruler must send a child to one of Talis’s Preceptures as a hostage, to be slain if his or her country acts up. Four centuries after an AI known as Talis took over the world to prevent humanity from wiping itself out, civilization has splintered into smaller territories, held in line through Talis’s orbital cannons, AI agents, and one simple philosophy: make it personal. ![]() ![]() This is how the game is played: if you want to rule, you must give one of your children as a hostage. In this gripping dystopian adventure, Bow ( Sorrow’s Knot) explores the price of power. She is also a Child of Peace, a hostage held by the de facto ruler of the world, the great Artificial Intelligence, Talis. ![]()
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