My favorite thing about Scythe is the way the stakes just kept getting higher and higher. Some things about it reminded me of Unwind, particularly the moral questions surrounding the Scythes’ role as killers. The characters are disturbed by what’s happening and find ways to fight against it or call it out as wrong. But I found it to be a lot like the way The Hunger Games handles violence.
I’m often sensitive to violence in books, so I was a little nervous about that. Somehow or other, I didn’t get to reading it very quickly, and here I am, almost two years later. When Scythe first came out, it was pretty near the top of my reading list because of how much I loved the other Neal Shusterman books I’ve read. These teens must master the “art” of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own. Now scythes are the only ones who can end life-and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control.Ĭitra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe-a role that neither wants. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Published on NovemAmazon | Barnes & Noble | GoodreadsĪ world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery.
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