That said, perhaps the reason why I feel so blasé about the finale is because I was trying to find that spark/connection and it just wasn’t there for me. “The problem with setting out to change the world was that you were never the only one.” I don’t want to give anything away, but if there’s one romance to ship it would’ve been this one and I wanted more from it!Īs always, Shusterman threw in some unexpected revelations that shook me and it took the story in a direction I didn’t expect (although about 60% of the way through I predicted exactly where this was going). Although I did find myself questioning just how relevant their character was after their role in the first half, I also just really enjoyed their personality. I liked most of the new characters but Jerico was by far my favorite. We were introduced to quite a few new characters but old characters we’d previously met (and likely overlooked) were brought back and given bigger roles. I think the magic of Shusterman’s writing is his ability to weave so many different storylines together and to drop little clues along the way that give readers an idea of how things might tie together. The world building and storytelling in general throughout this whole series has been amazing and it continued to be so in The Toll. “You can whisper, and people will still hear thunder.”

I don’t know, I’m honestly kind of confused! 'No one does doom like Neal Shusterman – the breathtakingly jagged brink of apocalypse is only overshadowed by the sense that his dystopias lie just below the surface of readers’ fragile reality.You know when you’re so excited to read a book and then you finish it and you’re left feeling pretty… whelmed? Not over or under whelmed just… WHELMED ? I think that’s kind of how I feel after finishing this series. Like Hunger Games, Scythe invites readers to both turn pages quickly but also furrow their brows over the ethical questions it asks It asks enough difficult questions to stick in the mind, but it never asks them at the expense of pacing or story.' Maggie Stiefvater on Scythe. Of Scythe: 'Pretty much a perfect teen adventure novel Over the years, I've heard many books touted as the successor to Hunger Games, but Scythe is the first one that I would really, truly stand behind, as it offers teens a complementary reading experience to that series rather than a duplicate one.

In this pulse-pounding finale to Neal Shusterman's internationally bestselling trilogy, constitutions are tested and old friends are brought back from the dead.

It’s been three years since Rowan and Citra disappeared since Scythe Goddard came into power since the Thunderhead closed itself off to everyone but Grayson Tolliver. The explosive conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Arc of a Scythe series.

Arc of a scythe series the toll