Neal Shusterman is an award-winning author whose books include the New York Times bestselling Unwind series and Challenger Deep, which won a National Book Award. He also writes screenplays for film and television, for shows such as Goosebumps and Animorphs. He lives in Florida and has four children. Follow him on Twitter: @NealShusterman
This powerful tale is guaranteed to make readers think deeply.
*Publishers Weekly (starred review)*
This first volume in an anticipated trilogy offers forbidden love,
mass murders, cool philosophical musings, and a well-developed
futuristic society—plenty to guarantee interest in the planned two
followups.
*BCCB (starred review)*
Shusterman starts off this series in dramatic fashion as he creates
an engrossing world that pulls readers in and refuses to let them
go… A truly astounding, unputdownable read and a fast-paced
beginning to an excellent sci-fi series. A must-have.
*School Library Journal (starred review)*
Elegant and elegiac, brooding but imbued with gallows humor,
Shusterman's dark tale thrusts realistic, likeable teens into a
surreal situation and raises deep philosophic questions. A
thoughtful and thrilling story of life, death, and meaning.
*Kirkus (starred review)*
Scythe owes an obvious debt to Unwind (2007) and its sequels, and
this succeeds as a sort of shadow companion to Patrick Ness’ Chaos
Walking trilogy: instead of exploring the ways in which men are
monsters, this deals in what happens to men when there are no
monsters. When our reach does not exceed our grasp, when comfort is
more easily obtained than struggle, when our essential humanity
doesn’t burn out but becomes slowly irrelevant, what becomes of us?
Readers will find many things in these pages. Answers to such
unsettling questions will not be among them.
*Booklist (starred review)*
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