Scythe

by Neal Shusterman

Book Overview

A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)

Two teens must learn the "art of killing" in this Printz Honor-winning book, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 144247243X
• ISBN13: 9781442472433
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12

Customer Reviews

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Loved this book. The interesting part was life is not something that is fragil anymore. You can live forever, unless you have been chosen to be gleaned. A group of elite people have been gleaning people to keep the balance in the population. Every year a scythe takes an apprentice to teach and hopefully be selected to be a new scythe.

Loved it!

Great story! Very interesting read.

This is a must read!

I loved this book way more than I thought I would when I first picked it up. The gleaning journals on the pages before each chapter were filled with thought-provoking lines from other Scythes, and I really enjoyed their views on humanity and the "mortality age." Throughout the novel I couldn't help but wonder what life would be like if death was "the exception and not the rule." The whole idea of society approved killers was very unique and I couldn't put it down! Definitely worth the read!