I picked up scythe at my college library after I'd asked where it had gone (they had the second two books, not the first) and they ordered a new copy, making it reserved for me. I hadn't been sure I even wanted to read it but I cannot explain how glad I am that I did.

I read the majority of it in one day after being in a month long reading slump and dystopia is not a genre I usually read - surely a tesement to the quality of the book.

The characters are loveable in the best way - you love to hate the villains, cheer for the protagonists and you gasp, cry and potentially even yell in the places you should. I definitely got some curious looks in public over my loud gasping and curious facial expressions.

I'm not the most intelligent person but I'm not particularly dumb either - I'm right about the murderer about 50% of the time in crime media - and yet I was constantly caught off guard by this book. I never knew where it was going or what would be next, in the best possible way.

The concept for a future of our world is also incredibly interesting, condensing America into four regions, changing the way people speak about ethnicity, creating world-wide law and new governing bodies strictly for the people known as Scythes with separation of Sycthe and State.

Absolutely would recommend