Waiting on Wednesday #20

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme created by Breaking The Spine . --- The Scorpion Rules Author: Erin Bow Pages: 384 Publis...

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme created by Breaking The Spine.

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The Scorpion Rules

Author: Erin Bow
Pages: 384
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Release Date: September 22nd 2015
A world battered by climate shift and war turns to an ancient method of keeping peace: the exchange of hostages. The Children of Peace - sons and daughters of kings and presidents and generals - are raised together in small, isolated schools called Preceptures. There, they learn history and political theory, and are taught to gracefully accept what may well be their fate: to die if their countries declare war. Greta Gustafsen Stuart, Duchess of Halifax and Crown Princess of the Pan-Polar Confederation, is the pride of the North American Precepture. Learned and disciplined, Greta is proud of her role in keeping the global peace, even though, with her country controlling two-thirds of the world’s most war-worthy resource — water — she has little chance of reaching adulthood alive. Enter Elián Palnik, the Precepture’s newest hostage and biggest problem. Greta’s world begins to tilt the moment she sees Elián dragged into the school in chains. The Precepture’s insidious surveillance, its small punishments and rewards, can make no dent in Elián, who is not interested in dignity and tradition, and doesn’t even accept the right of the UN to keep hostages.  What will happen to Elián and Greta as their two nations inch closer to war?

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Why I'm Waiting

This book first got a lot of buzz when they handed out ARCs of it at BEA and it seems super interesting. This book definitely seems like it will have action and I love the concept of holding hostages to prevent wars between kingdoms. I'm excited to read this book and see where it goes. The cover is also really nice and I love it! :)

So tell me: Have you heard of this book? 

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