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My job, when you think about it, isn’t so different from a lot of people’s. I have to deal with a ton of boring planning. Inconvenient hours. Some pretty awkward face-to-face interactions. And like most of us, I’m really only clocking in to try and crawl out from beneath my debts.
The more old-fashioned crowd do still get hung up on the ‘killing people’ part, I guess, but that’s a them problem: it’s been perfectly legal to take out lifers for ages. Besides, once ultrawealthy morons realised they had a way to live forever—limited resources be damned—there was only ever going to be one genuinely practical deterrent. So someone’s got to do it.
And luckily, my genetic compatibilities make me really, really good at it.
Still. This next job… I don’t know. It’s something I haven’t had to deal with in years. Kind of the opposite of my regular duties. Strange, that it got thrown my way.
I’m sure it’ll all go totally fine though.
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5/5 ⭐️James Islington is ridiculously good at dropping you into a world already in motion and trusting you to figure it out as you go. Scion throws technology, terminology, social structures, and history at you through context, so the world builds itself naturally around the story instead of stopping for explanations. Azure’s voice is fantastic, the dialogue is sharp and genuinely funny, and the pacing basically never lets up. Even in barely 250 pages, Islington manages to layer in mysteries, moral questions, and those carefully planted details that make you immediately start questioning what you think you know. Different beast from his massive fantasy books, but still unmistakably Islington, and I absolutely blazed through this book in one sitting