Scythe by Neal Shusterman

I don't know what took me so long to read this.

Full Tilt by Shusterman is one of my favorite books, among those I reread often.

So I have no idea why despite having this in my library I hadn't actually read it 'til today.

It was actually a student of Ms. McCormack's that convinced me to read this with his/her independent reading project.

Imagine a world where humanity has conquered disease.  Death is easily reversible.  Only a chosen few, known as Scythes, decide who is to live and who is to die.  With a set quota, they chose who to kill and how.  Some do so mimicking the deaths of the time before, others have developed a penchant for pain.  It is a time of disagreement among the group on methods and leadership.

Citra and Rowan are two scythe apprentices.  Politics get in the way and they are farmed out to two very different mentors, in what will culminate in one becoming a scythe and the other being killed.  Scythes themselves can only be killed, or gleaned, by oneself or by fire.  Keep that in mind.

I'm so glad I finally picked this off the shelf to read.

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