Whether it be the well developed characters or the action or the futuristic society, I’m sure that everyone can find something to love about Scythe.

I highly recommend Scythe to everyone, especially for fans of young adult books. It is seriously one of the best books I have ever read. I didn’t want this book to end when I was reading it. The author knows how to spectacularly weave action, plot, and character development together to captivate readers until the very last page. Obviously, its kind of a flawed system and a power vacuum, so theres a dystopian revolution type thing. So theres a job, called a Scythe, where you have to choose people to kill. I struggle with books that are too slow but there was so much action and so many twists and turns that I didn’t feel bored at any point in this book. Scythe is a YA series about a world where weve solved aging and death, but still need to keep the population down. This take on the young adult dystopian genre is now an unexpected favorite of mine and I ordered the second book before I even finished this one so that I could continue with this series. It immediately poses the question of whether death should come naturally to people or whether people should be the ones to decide when life ends? It’s morbid and heavy but it’s intriguing at the same time and it kept me eager to find out what was next in the story. Scythe has a very interesting premise and it starts off well. Citra and Rowan, two teens, have been chosen to be apprentices to a scythe and when the time comes, one of them will be chosen to become a scythe. In a futuristic world where natural death has been eliminated, scythes are chosen to end people’s lives in order to keep population growth under control.

The scythe book series