The Scythes are the only ones who can end a life and are tasked with controlling the size of the population. The books are set in a world without hunger, disease or war, in a future where humanity has even conquered death. "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. (11 reviews) The Arc of a Scythe is a chilling YA dystopian series by National Book Award-winning author, Neal Shusterman. Of The Schwa Was Here, School Library Journal wrote: Shustermans charactersreminiscent of those crafted. 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. A stunning novel, impossible to put down once begun. 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. The explosive conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Arc of a Scythe series.
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