Loved itSai, the YA dystopian. people who are selected have to take other people's lives.
Scythe (2016)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive Thou shalt kill. 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. (Description from GoodReads)
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- 9781406379242
- Length:
- 442 pages
Genres: science fiction, young adult
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Loved itit really makes the this series in particular really makes you think about choices and actions and consequences of people and just woo it's intense but it is amazing highly recommend
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Not a fanThe concept brilliant I didn't jail with the writing I thought the romance was just crazy silly. I won't be continuing sythe.
Loved itI liked the first book quite a bit I think I'm going to put that up here actually I enjoyed this
Loved itI feel like the sces series is my personal favorite and it's just so gripping as a concept with the characters and the whole thing I felt like culminated super successfully in the final book within this trilogy
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Loved iti just like what it has to say about like death and morality and who gets to choose who dies and like all the themes that it kind of talks about so i'm looking forward to the rest of the series
Loved itEnjoyed the first one a lot, as a trilogy as a whole. I absolutely loved it.
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Loved iti am blown away and absolutely obsessed with the first two books in this series
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Loved itI really loved this first book in this kind of like utopia/dystopian YA thing. It was a refreshing take on that kind of genre unfortunately for me still the best of the trilogy.
Mixedsite that solution is some good [ __ ] Neal Shusterman did some things that I just was not expecting this who writes that right Neal Shusterman right side okay yeah I don't like I want to look inside his brain because there were so many things happening
Loved itThat one I think I want to put it in the great tier to be honest I really enjoyed it I liked the finale didn't love it I think it's a super cool series.
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Loved itthere's a lot more that I could say about these books but it's a little bit spoilery and it kind of goes more into the politics of this world and the Thunderhead which is artificial intelligence
Loved itI read them back to back so to be honest they almost read like one book to me and that is scythe and Thunderhead which I just fell in love with this past year
Loved itonce again he just has created such an interesting plot that I haven't really read before ... it was just another crazy ride and I couldn't help but put it on my favorites list of the year
Loved itI loved this world-building it was so freakin good
Loved itI was so blown away by saya and how much it impacted the way I think about things there's all these things about morality and death and life