Review: The House of the Scorpion

House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer Published by Atheneum on June 5, 2014 Genres: Young Adult-Science Fiction/Dsytopian Source: Bought Buy on Amazon Goodreads Matteo Alacran was not born; he was harvested with the DNA from El Patron, lord of a country called Opium. Can a boy who was bred to guarantee another’s survival find his own purpose in life? And can he ever be free? This has to one of the first book that has to do with creating children for a while. I cannot really remember a book like this and that is what excites me. I understand that this book is one that came out years ago but what is surprising is that I keep seeing it in places that I travel so I figured that this book must be good and after reading it, it was not what I was expecting but it was a...

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