"No one does doom like Neal Shusterman – the breathtakingly jagged brink of apocalypse is only overshadowed by the sense that his dystopias lie just below the surface of readers’ fragile reality. The atrocious acts depicted in the book are by no means glorified but are in fact looked down upon and the. The book has many mass killings and vivid descriptions of painful deaths and beating as well as a religious groups mutating themselves.
Like Hunger Games, Scythe invites readers to both turn pages quickly but also furrow their brows over the ethical questions it asks It asks enough difficult questions to stick in the mind, but it never asks them at the expense of pacing or story." Maggie Stiefvater on Scythe. It’s an amazing book but far more brutal than the previous books in the series. Of Scythe: "Pretty much a perfect teen adventure novel Over the years, I've heard many books touted as the successor to Hunger Games, but Scythe is the first one that I would really, truly stand behind, as it offers teens a complementary reading experience to that series rather than a duplicate one. In this pulse-pounding finale to Neal Shusterman's internationally bestselling trilogy, constitutions are tested and old friends are brought back from the dead. It’s been three years since Rowan and Citra disappeared since Scythe Goddard came into power since the Thunderhead closed itself off to everyone but Grayson Tolliver. (Nov.) Correction: A previous version of this review misstated the name of Scythe Goddard's character.The explosive conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Arc of a Scythe series. With a surprising amount of humor for the large body count, it elevates and deepens the series with a gently optimistic examination of the fine human line between utopia and dystopia. The stellar conclusion to Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe trilogy is a gripping adventure that never stops building momentum as it refocuses the books on a grander scale. Some previously central characters, particularly Rowan, take on smaller roles, while others, including Greyson and a hypercompetent, genderfluid sea captain named Jerico Soberanis, are given space to charm. Scythe, the first book in his latest series, Arc of a Scythe, is a Michael L. Meanwhile, Greyson Tolliver, the only human to whom the nearly omnipotent AI known as the Thunderhead will talk, has become the Toll, spiritual leader to the oppressed Tonist religion, as the Thunderhead secretly works to build something game-changing on the remote Marshall Atolls. Neal Shusterman is the New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty award-winning books for children, teens, and adults, including the Unwind dystology, the Skinjacker trilogy, Downsiders, and Challenger Deep, which won the National Book Award. Citra must convince the world of Goddard’s villainy, while Rowan, universally despised as the destroyer of Endura, must simply survive.
When Citra and Rowan are discovered preserved in the wreckage of Endura, three years after the events of Thunderhead, they awaken to find that megalomaniacal Scythe Goddard is now Overblade of all North Merica and is consolidating power worldwide.
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