![]() ![]() ![]() No surprise, given the title, but readers get quite a bit of the Thunderhead’s perspective in this sequel. In book two, Thunderhead, Shusterman turns his attention to the powerful AI itself, as the machinations of power-hungry scythes threaten to upset the world order. Scythe, which received a Printz Honor, followed the training of two apprentice scythes, Rowan and Citra, amid political turmoil within the scythedom. In order to keep population growth in check, an organization known as the scythedom was established, its members revered and feared for their duty to “glean” humans, one of the few ways a person can truly, irrevocably die. Technology has advanced to a point that poverty, crime, and even death itself have all but ceased to be concerns. In 2016, Neal Shusterman released Scythe, the first book in his Arc of a Scythe series, set on a future Earth governed by an artificial intelligence known as the Thunderhead. ![]()
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