Two teens must learn the “art of killing” in the first book in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology. And if there is some eternal world after this one, what fate awaits a taker of lives? I understand why there are scythes, and how important and how necessary the work is… but I often wonder why I had to be chosen. The ending of human life used to be in the hands of nature. We have one very limited world, and although death has been defeated as completely as polio, people still must die. It’s not as if we can go somewhere else the disasters on the moon and Mars colonies proved that. All of that is behind us now, and yet a simple truth remains: People have to die.
It’s hard for most of us to imagine a world so unsafe, with dangers lurking in every unseen, unplanned corner. Aging couldn’t be reversed, and there were accidents from which there was no return. There were invisible killers called “diseases” that broke the body down. Old age used to be a terminal affliction, not a temporary state. And knowing that it is for the greater good doesn’t make it any easier. This is followed by the 2nd in this series Thunderhead and Toll is the finale in this trilogy.It is the most difficult thing a person can be asked to do. Told in different viewpoints and interspersed with diary entries from Scythes throughout history to the present day, the tension builds slowly until I wanted to jump inside this world and deal out the justice I felt strongly compelled to reap. Will they be able to keep true to themselves, and to each other, even when given the order to glean the ones closest to them?Ī brilliant premise, with twists and turns, alliances and power plays under the surface wherever the two main characters tread. But just as there was before the age of The Thunderhead and The Scythe, power, corruption and ego has spawned again, and Citra and Rowan are engulfed by it. When Citra and Rowan are chosen together by a Scythe, they neither know each other or want to glean anyone, but that is why they are perfect candidates for their apprenticeships. A myriad of weapons, poisons, and fight knowledge is part of the training. To learn all ways possible to take a life at their discretion under their personal yearly quota. Scythes are those chosen to be apprenticed for a year. The Thunderhead has not been given this job – this is the responsibility of The Scythes.
Even pain has been all but banished as everyone has nanites in their blood to counter it, also able to heal a body quickly.īut dire overpopulation is the result, needing constant culling. The Cloud as we know it has become The Thunderhead – an all knowing, all seeing, all understanding ‘being’ that oversees humankind.Īll disease, religion, hunger and misery is gone. Citra and Rowan live in a world of our future.
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