A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. 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.
Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe—a role that neither wants. These teens must master the “art” of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own.
Scythe is the first novel of a thrilling new series by National Book Award–winning author Neal Shusterman in which Citra and Rowan learn that a perfect world comes only with a heavy price.
How did I get this book?:
The website Riveted offers free ebooks from time to time.
Why did I choose this book?:
I was attracted by the idea of a world where there is nothing ‘bad’ although in the end that’s not so true and there is no death so some people has to be chosen as the killers of everyone else (so there is a little balance on population). There is a huge moral dilemma there.
Both Citra and Rowan have an encounter with a scythe which is what the people chosen to glean others (because killing is too strong a word in a perfect world) are called. They don’t like it one bit, but precisely because of that this scythe chooses them as his apprentices to become scythes of their own one day.
The task becomes even more annoying for them both because they’re training to become a scythe… but only one of them will be chosen in the end.
The thing is, I started this book thinking Citra was the main character and Rowan was kind of a secondary, then as you’re reading you’re not sure anymore (it looked to me a little as if the author suddenly was more interested in Rowan, Rowan’s choices, etc even if he doesn’t stop writing about Citra too). So even if I liked the book a lot and the end left me waiting for more, I didn’t enjoy it as much as I could have. Citra was a character with much more to tell in my opinion. But the worldbuilding is good and the plot twists… wow with the plot twists. I was mouth-wide-open for a lot of the book and it made me want to read more and more non-stop (I spent a couple of sleep-lacking nights). So for that even if it was too heteronormative sometimes and there were details that I wished they would’ve been better I’m eager to read the next one (which if I’m not mistaken was released like a couple days ago).
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
If we can't die, someone has to kill us. pic.twitter.com/bcJzorcNkx
— ❄ eme ❄ (reading The Last Magician) (@palabroarcoiris) January 5, 2018
⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 7’5/10
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