There’s so much more to talk about with this story. When “Scythe” begins, two teens, Rowan Damisch and Citra Terranova, are chosen to apprentice for a highly respected scythe and are made to compete against one another for the chance to become a licensed death-bringer themselves. Not even to the Thunderhead, a giant supercomputer in this world that controls everything on the planet. These scythes are death-bringers who operate under their own terms and laws, and answer to no one. Set in a future world where society has conquered death, poverty, illness and any other global crisis you can think of, “scythes” are charged with curbing the population. Without giving too much away, here’s a quick synopsis about what to expect from this series. But none of these series comes close to what Neal Shusterman’s been able to accomplish with his Arc of a Scythe series. Before I begin, I’d like to issue a preemptive apology to those of you who love the “will they, won’t they” romance between Katniss and Peeta and the pound-pulsing action of books like the Maze Runner, because what I’m about to say can be considered controversial.
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