First of all, my apologies for not having posted much in the last few weeks – I’ve been too busy reading to write about reading. As I have mentioned in previous posts, in the months of October and November there were a shedload of new releases about which I was very excited. I’ve only just now caught up with all of the new books in my life. Some of the reviews will be quite brief as it’s been quite a while and several books ago that I read them It will take a couple of posts to go through them all so let’s get started. [book-info] The Scorpion Rules is the first in Erin Bow’s Children of Peace YA series. In Bow’s world, peace is maintained by an AI named Talis who forces each country’s leaders to provide a child or grandchild as a Child of Peace – if the country enters a war, the hostage is killed. The book centres around a young princess named Greta, whose orderly world as a hostage is shaken by the arrival of a new Child of Peace, Elian. Elian is new to the hostage system and struggles to adapt. Things escalate when Greta’s…