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claralex800
May 23, 2018claralex800 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Other people (with three-star ratings) have already gone pretty deep into what I would have to say about this book (about the typos, there was a comma in the middle of a word in the copy I read) so I'll just summarize. It wasn't amazing, but I couldn't stop reading. The other Neal Shusterman books I've read (the first two Unwind books) made me feel sick and angry. "Scythe" mostly made me feel sick, though it was also pretty funny (which is a weird combination, I know). The background characters, and the main characters sometimes, were ignorant and sycophantic, which accounts for the "sick" part. The funny came from some of the lines, especially one from Rowan's journal. Several of the plot twists were predictable, and the head-hopping within a chapter was pretty annoying. There were plot holes that were filled in later (like dying by fire) and some that weren't (like why people are okay with being controlled by little robots in their blood--okay, maybe that isn't a plot hole, but you'd think that someone would have rebelled by now). Despite this, I wanted to know what happened, so I read to the end. And I will be reading "Thunderhead".