“But the moment passed.”īelow them, the entire council chamber was now underwater.

“Do you know, there was actually a moment that I thought I might save them,” he said. “Like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders,” he told her. “How does it feel to change the world?” Ayn asked. As would be their pilot, after he brought them to the ship that was waiting fifty miles away. But no one would ever know, for those engineers and programmers had all been gleaned. Of course, all those malfunctions were orchestrated by the team of engineers and programmers he had personally put together. After all, Endura had been experiencing serious malfunctions for months. Best to let the world think it was a terrible, terrible accident. For although many scythes would laud him for having done away with the Grandslayers, just as many would condemn him. Of course, unlike Curie, he knew better than to take credit for this. Now each region would be autonomous and would no longer have to answer to a higher authority levying a litany of endlessly constricting rules. Just as Scythe Curie had pruned away the dead wood from Western civilization in her early days, Goddard had done away with another archaic governing body. Old foes and new enemies converge, and as corruption within the Scythedom spreads, Rowan and Citra begin to lose hope.Goddard watched the devouring of the Grandslayers from high above, appreciating the bird’s-eye view of his grand coup. 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. Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, in the chilling sequel to the Printz Honor Book Scythe from New York Times bestseller Neal Shusterman, author of the Unwind dystology. “Even better than the first book.” - School Library Journal (starred review) “Intelligent and entertaining.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Scythe book 2