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Scythe by Neal Shusterman

21 reviews

creativeworld's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Violence, Child death, Blood, Grief, Murder, Body horror, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

azurae's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Murder

Minor: Alcohol, Body horror, Violence, Genocide, Gore, Suicide, Medical trauma, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Fire/Fire injury

maisieflorence's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, Torture, Body horror, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Death, Murder, Mass/school shootings, Violence, Religious bigotry, Gun violence, and Hate crime

kstericker's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, Physical abuse, Blood, Violence, Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Murder, Mass/school shootings, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, and Grief

Moderate: Torture and Religious bigotry

Minor: Fatphobia and Sexual harassment

msradiosilence's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Tldr; I really enjoyed this book, even though it was slow in some parts. Now, if Rowan is taking requests, go get the High Blade, please and thank you. :)

Read my full review at: https://www.rainyreader.com/single-post/scythe.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Child death, Body horror, Murder, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Suicide, Death, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Violence

Minor: Sexual harassment and Adult/minor relationship

recycled_personalities's review

dark funny reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

cool world, and like 2 decent characters. i think the societal structure is enough for me to recommend this book as i believe it is quite the ponder one can have.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Genocide, Abandonment, Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Violence, Blood, Child abuse, Classism, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Child death, Grief, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

cepbreed's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

I LOVED THIS!! I’m really considering reentering my YA dystopia phase just for this book to be honest. I literally made my mom order the sequels ASAP. The premise is original and captivating but it is what is done with it that makes the book a great one. Citra and Rowan may be the main characters but I found myself falling fast for Scythe Curie and Faraday. I love the edition of the Scythe journal entries, giving us information that contextualizes information from all sections of the book. The plot had me on the edge of my seat and the twists had me gasping for air!

Song: 

• Wires - The Neighbourhood 
• Mean It - Gracie Abrams 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Bullying, Religious bigotry, Classism, Gun violence, and Medical content

Minor: Hate crime, Stalking, and Torture

benny_'s review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Murder, Mass/school shootings, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Genocide, and Gore

Moderate: Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Grief

Minor: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

rachrreads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

WOW. I’m so mad at myself for not reading this sooner. It’s been on my shelf for over a year and it was perfect in every way.

Immediately you are thrust into the world. A world where death has been conquered. The only way to control the population growth is through the scythes— those chosen to glean at random with no bias or malice.

Citra and Rowan are chosen as apprentices to Scythe Faraday. Neither of them want this life, but is that not the very reason why they should be chosen?

I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys dystopian novels. This book throughly impressed me and I devoured it. I was constantly being thrown off and unsure what was going to happen next. This book is eventful, but with a purpose. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Suicide, Self harm, Murder, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore

bill369's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

I got to this book because I've grown to like the author's writing. He writes the ideal escape the world books for me and I like this one too. It has a good thought, it's easy to read and not too sad. I like sad books, but from time to time I need a break and this was the break.

My favourite character is Scythe Curie. I like her because she's wise, empathic, self-disciplined and overall quite likeable. I feel like the author wants the reader to like her because from the start the reader sees excerpts that make the reader wonder who she is and the further the reader gets, the more she's pictured in the good light. And I wouldn't be against that, don't get me wrong, but perhaps I'm missing something negative about her because when I truly think about her I can't picture her as a whole. There's this piece missing to understand her. Maybe that's what the author wanted, but I find it rather annoying. I hope I will get to know her more in the next book.

Cool dystopian world book. I love these, therefore I obviously like the theme of the book. I like how many thoughts are represented here. The most interesting of all is the thought of stagnation which made me think a little more and I have come to the conclusion that I wouldn't want to be immortal, even though I don't want to die yet. And that's so because my limited time keeps me motivated and focused on my goals because I know I got only one shot and I don't have forever.

My favourite lines are on page 367. They are my favourite because it is a nice and emotional moment between my two favourite characters in the book. It's just really nice. I love how Scythe Curie is finally more open to Citra and honestly who doesn't like this moment?

“I don’t know. All I know is that if you lose today, Citra, I will never
forgive myself.”
It was absurd to think that the great Scythe Marie Curie, Grande Dame of
Death, would care so much for her—and would even think there could be
any failure on her own part. “I’ve had the benefit of being trained by the two
greatest scythes who ever lived—you and Scythe Faraday. If that hasn’t
prepared me for today, nothing could have.”
Scythe Curie beamed with bittersweet pride. “When this is over and you
are ordained, I hope you’ll do me the esteemed honor of staying on with me
as a junior scythe. Others will make advances—perhaps even from distant
regions. They’ll try to tell you there are things you can learn from them that
you couldn’t learn from me. Perhaps that’s true, but I do hope you’ll choose
to remain anyway.” Her eyes were on the brink of tears. If she blinked, they
would fall—but Scythe Curie kept them pooled on her lower lashes, too
proud to be seen weeping in conclave.

The ending turned out 

really well. I thought I would cry, because one of the main characters would die, but in the end Citra was smart and solved the situation well.

  It had quite an open ending, but I'm fine with it, because it is a book series after all. I like the ending.

This book isn't a 5 star, it was great, but for a 5 star, I would have to cry and care deeply about it. It was fun and well written, but it's not a 5 star for me. As I said perhaps I would make the characters a bit shadier, but otherwise, I don't know what I would change. Also, I do want to point out, that characters do have some past, but it's not very dark or anything. If it was up to me, I think I would add more to their backstory. But as I said before I like this book, it was a good, fun and quite relaxing read. It's not a must-read, but if someone wants to and is looking for a more easy fast-paced book, then they'll be content.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Death, and Murder

Minor: Abandonment, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide