“Without the threat of suffering, we can’t experience true joy. The best we get is pleasatness.

Scythe, Page 192

Synopsis

Citra and Rowan are unremarkable, normal teenagers until they both encounter Scythe Faraday in different ways. Scythe Faraday notices that they have a certain kind of compassion in them – so he decides he wants to take them on as scythe apprentices. Citra and Rowan are abhorred about the idea at first – who would want a life where their job is to be “death.” A very necessary job, but one where everyone fears you in an age where mortality doesn’t exist. After a few months of training they attend their first conclave – a congregation of the areas scythes that includes meetings and the apprentices being tested. Scythe Godddard, someone who believes his method is the future of scythedom, brings up a proposition that only Citra or Rowan can become a scythe and whoever wins needs to glean (kill) the other. The story follows this predicament and how they try to work around it.

Review

I always really enjoy books like these – it reminds of hunger games and maze runner. It is always a crazy and entertaining adventure. The characters work really well together and there is a hint of romance but it definitely does not precede the entire story. It is more of the beauty of friendship and how they can be clever to get around the hand that was dealt to them. I highly recommend this book and I look forward to reading the next one.

“The longer we live, the quicker the days seem to pass. How troublesome that is when we live forever”

Scythe, page 293

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Did you read this book? What do you think?