Scythe (435 Pages)

Neal Shusterman has written a book filled with horrible violence, and yet it is a book that has many redeeming features. Shusterman's world sounds as though it should be perfect. It is a world without hunger, wars, disease, and no misery. What could be wrong? Population! There is nothing in perfection to control population growth. Therefore, scythes were selected with the task of controlling this growth. This means they were given the job of selecting specific people to kill. There were moments when I wondered about promoting this, and yet I kept reading and was pulled in to rooting for the characters. I would really love to hear from anyone who reads this blog and get their thinking!