Girl and Boy both forget Scythe (Happy Day!) until Scythe recruits them as apprentices. Whole school wants to cause grievous bodily harm to boy for not stopping whole process (no I’m not spoilering! This is literally like 15 pages…). Boy refuses to leave quarterback alone while he dies. Scythe gleans their neighbour and disappears into obscurity. I envisaged yet another ‘this is amazing, you should read it!’ meanwhile the whole thing would slowly turn into a dumpster fire of a novel where I maniacally fed each, gut-wrenchingly droll page into the flames, cherishing the very destruction as it meant one less copy in the world (don’t look at me with your judgy eyes, I already know I am eveil). The End’ (yes i’m being dramatic.I’m writing this review at midnight after finishing the second in the series). When I started Scythe, I thought it was going to be another ‘teenager versus teenager. So without further ado, here are my thoughts on the first two Arc of a Scythe novels. It was a good bandwagon to jump on BUT I have my issues. They have been sitting in my TBR pile, staring at me with disdain for almost a year so I thought I should probably jump on the bandwagon before I got steamrolled by the masses.

Scythe exploded onto the YA scene in November 2016 and pretty much anyone who is anyone has drunk the Coolade and has shouted their praises from the closest rooftop, mountaintop or otherwise of great height above sea level platform. Remember neal also sold the rights of Challenger Deep to be a movie on netflix and Unwind to be a tv show ! So yeah it's really hard to wait this long but i rather wait a few more years and have an amazing adapation on the big screen.So if you haven’t at least heard of Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe series, you must have been living under a rock for the past 2 years. Look at Marissa Meyer who wrote The Lunar Chronicles : it's been years since she is selling and reselling the rights of the series for its adaptation, trying to see if it would fit better in a movie or a tv show. I think it is pretty difficult to find the perfect production compagny to sell your rights to because you don't want them to screw your book. And the funding for the movie has to be found too. Besides, neal is working on several projects right now so it might be difficult for him to focus on all of those things at the same time. Also, i think Universal don't want to mess up this one like they messed up with Mortal Engines. Although, i'm not sure if neal has a word on those things, i just know that he said he can't do much about the casting.

Neal probably wants the script to be as accurate as it can be compared to the book so it takes time to find the perfect screenwriter and director. I think we are all pretty annoyed by that but hey, i guess we have no choice but to wait to have the perfect scythe movie we want.

Scythe series book 2