Now one is little more than a footnote and the other doesn’t matter until the second half. SCYTHE was more or less exclusively about them, with other POVs thrown in occasionally to build their story. Yes, they’ve been stuck in a sealed box for three years, and are dead with no one able to access them for a while, but I wanted to read about them. The lack of the main characters really irritated me. It’s as if he’s been discarded completely, given a task to make him irrelevant to the plot, because the author didn’t know what to do with him. The second half features Citra as a prominent character, but Rowan comes up in maybe five chapters. To be honest, they don’t really feature in the first half. Rowan and Citra don’t appear until chapter 13, and then not again for a while. The writing was superb, but I was struggling to care and was really frustrated that Shusterman had continued what he’d started in THUNDERHEAD – not focusing on the series leads established in SCYTHE. However, I almost DNF’ed the book in the first half. This book had superb pacing and an intriguing plot that kept me reading late. Synopsis taken from the blurb on my copy. The answer lies in the Tone, the Toll and the Thunder. Now that the Thunderhead is silent, the question remains: is there anyone left who can stop him? It looks like nothing else stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute power. I do not speak with the voice of the Thunder, but the Thunder does speak through me.Įverything has changed in the world of the scythes.
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