Scythe

This was such a fun read for me. While this book is not what I would call fast paced by any means, I found it engaging and quite interesting. Citra and Rowan are a couple of teenagers that live in a post-mortality world. They have cured all disease, and when you die, you are taken to a revival center and brought back to life. There is the Thunderhead, which is an all knowing consciousness, and the scythehood, which are all the scythes. The scythes govern themselves, and the two do not interfere with each other. Oh, and when a scythe kills someone it is called gleaning.

The scythes are tasked with killing 1 person a day, except on weekends, however they choose, without malice. I found this interesting because the scythes are just people, and most everyone is capable of having malice sometime or another. Anyways, Rowan and Citra are chosen as Scythe Faraday's apprentices. He chooses them because of their conscious, their morals. Then some things happen, and only one of them can get the ring, this they knew, but now because of another scythes interference, one must glean the other at the end. They are also apprenticed under different scythes at this point, and it is interesting to see.

There is a divide in the scythedom, some scythes believe they are gods, that they are above the others. That they should kill however, whenever they want. Others believe that they should continue as they have. I am interested in the next book, mostly on who it will be about.