No Name

       Neal Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe series brings you into a Dystopian sci-fi future where death has been eradicated by the Thunderhead, which is the mind of an all-knowing AI. Still, someone must keep the population under control. The Scythedom is the group of elite killers tasked with keeping the population in check by ‘gleaning,’ which is another word for murder. This book is dark, strange, and quite a page-turner. The story follows two teenagers who are chosen to become scythes and undergo apprenticeship under the scythes who choose them, learning about the role they will take on for the rest of their lives as they face ethical dilemmas that come with the responsibility of taking people's lives. What really brings these serious topics to life is Shusterman’s unique style. Writing style: Shusterman has a writing style that I thoroughly enjoyed. Here are a few interesting examples from either journals or internal character dialogue: “ There’s a lot written a...