And that’s where things get a little crazy. To top that off, we also have the perspective of the Thunderhead. There are a number of perspectives in this book, much more than Scythe, because on top of Rowan and Citra, we have the occasional glimpses of the other Scythes as well as two additional POVs we didn’t have before. After all, the Scythe police themselves, and the Thunderhead holds no jurisdiction in that respect.

The story continues almost a year after the events of Scythe, but instead of a diffusion of the problems that were slightly resolved, things escalate for the worse, and not even the Thunderhead is able to do much about it. I don’t typically have high blood pressure, but in this instance, high blood pressure became a normal part of reading Thunderhead. I heeded the warning, but what my student failed to tell me was that things would get ABSOLUTELY WORSE and that I would constantly get angry at things happening. I was actually warned about this book before I’d read it. Or will it simply watch as this perfect world begins to unravel? Old foes and new enemies converge, and as corruption within the Scythedom spreads, Rowan and Citra begin to lose hope. His story is told in whispers across the continent.Īs Scythe Anastasia, Citra gleans with compassion and openly challenges the ideals of the “new order.” But when her life is threatened and her methods questioned, it becomes clear that not everyone is open to the change. Since then, he has become an urban legend, a vigilante snuffing out corrupt scythes in a trial by fire. A year has passed since Rowan had gone off grid. The Thunderhead is the perfect ruler of a perfect world, but it has no control over the scythedom. NOTE: This book is the second in the Arc of a Scythe series, so it will have spoilers. But by a certain point I was certainly invested in the characters so that so-called ending shot my ANXIETY LEVEL SKY-HIGH AND I CANNOT DEAL. This was not quite as enjoyable as Scythe for the main reason that it got frustrating to read halfway through.

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